MICHELE PAPA is an Italian attorney-at-law admitted to the Milan Bar Association specializing in intellectual property, art and cultural heritage law. He is also a teaching fellow in intellectual property law at the University of Parma and member of the Designs Standing Committee of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property as well as of the World Intellectual Property Organization ADR Young group. In 2022, 2023 and 2024 he has been acknowledged as among the finest emerging intellectual property talents on a global scale by the legal review Managing IP.

Pupil of Professor Cesare Galli, one of the major experts in the intellectual property law field in Italy and in the EU, he co-chaired an independent art and architecture gallery and was a resident contributor to a well-known Italian magazine on lifestyle, interior design, fashion, cinema and literature issues.

This particular background has allowed him to gain experience in the typical issues of the creative industry and to be able to offer today highly skilled and tailor made consultancy to the professionals of such a complicated and inspiring market. 

Among his clients are independent fashion and luxury goods companies, internationally renowned interior design firms, art galleries, starred restaurants, photographers, collectors, authors, artists and architects both long-established and rising.

EDUCATION
CopyrightX and PatentX specialization course at the Harvard Law School
Law Degree summa cum laude at the University of Brescia, Italy