Lucio Scudiero

Title: Counsel
Office: Rome
Languages: English, French, Italian

Lucio Scudiero advises on data law and cybersecurity, with particular focus on data protection and cybersecurity requirements, as well as on subjects related to consumer law and electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions (so called “eIDAS Regulation”), particularly in the fintech, insurtech and life science domains. He also drafts and revises IT contracts, such as Cloud Computing Service Agreements, Privacy Level Agreements, Software Contracts, advising clients in the context of inspections and law enforcement operations undertaken by the Italian Data Protection Authority and other supervisory authorities, as well as in the context of judicial activities related to the application of data laws. Lucio contributed to the first draft of the Euro Privacy certification scheme, the first EU certification mechanism approved by the European Data Protection Bard, and is an active member of the Euro Privacy Board of Experts. Furthermore, he is one of the three designated members of the monitoring body overseeing the application of the Code of Conduct on the credit checks within the credit bureaus approved by the Italian Data Protection Authority.

Furthermore, Lucio Scudiero participates in conferences, workshops and courses as a speaker and is also a lecturer in several Masters on the subject of the protection of personal data.
The Legal 500 mentions Lucio Scudiero as Rising Star in the Data Privacy and Data Protection section (2020 – 2022). Moreover, Lucio is mentioned as follows: “Lucio Scudiero has outstanding knowledge of our business”, “Lucio Scudiero leads the team, he is already a veteran in the field with a strong commercial orientation and a wide knowledge of the law and its practice in different contexts. He has good relationships with the community of privacy professionals”, “The personal and professional skills of Lucio Scudiero as well as all other consultants and partners from Legance are very high and much appreciated” (2023), “Lucio Scudiero is one of the few true data protection experts on the market” and “he is extremely competent, but also very attentive to dealing in a direct and polite way, showing extreme availability” (2022).