International: TMT Talk Podcast Series – Episode 69 – The Evolving 5G Regulatory Landscape – Antitrust and Patents (Podcast)

Raffaele Giarda is the global head of Baker McKenzie's Technology Media & Telecoms Industry Group and co-heads the IPTech and Corporate/M&A practices in the Firm's Italy offices. He has contributed articles to law journals, and often moderates and speaks at Italian and international conferences and seminars on tech legal and regulatory issues. Mr. Giarda is a lecturer at the University of Rome as well as at the Italian National School for Public Administration. He joined the Firm in 1989 and became partner in 1999.

Highly acclaimed and Band 1 ranked Leading Antitrust Lawyer Stephen Crosswell is the chair of Baker McKenzie's Asia-Pacific Antitrust & Competition Group, the head of our Greater China Antitrust & Competition team and the immediate past chair of our Asia-Pacific TMT Industry Group. He is one of the leading trial lawyers in Hong Kong, admitted as a Solicitor Advocate, with the right to appear as an advocate at all levels in the Hong Kong Courts, including the Competition Tribunal, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal.
Clients laud Stephen for his "years of experience working on competition matters." He is described as a "vital resource for clients seeking to navigate the nuances not only of the local competition law regime in Hong Kong but also across other Asian jurisdictions – including China." Stephen is uniquely placed as a specialist competition advocate in Hong Kong. He represented one of the parties to the first enforcement action taken in Hong Kong's Competition Tribunal. His practice covers investigations, dawn raid response, multijurisdictional cartel investigations, leniency, merger clearance, collaboration/joint ventures and antitrust advisory. Stephen’s three decades of experience includes running and advising on some of the largest and most high-profile competition trials, dawn raids, leniency applications, cross-border cartel matters and merger clearance projects in Asia.
Stephen is also one of the leading telecoms, media and technology regulatory lawyers in Asia, with a practice that covers a broad range of regulatory and litigation issues in China, Hong Kong and throughout the Asia Pacific. This includes digital market regulation, AI, interconnection disputes, premium media content disputes, telecommunications licensing, spectrum allocation and auctions, 5G rollout, submarine cables, cable landing stations, satellite disputes, pay and free TV licensing, judicial review proceedings and access claims.

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Mackenzie Martin co-leads the Firm's Global Patent Practice and is a member of the Firm's North American Intellectual Property & Technology and North American Trial Team Steering Committees. She focuses on intellectual property litigation, counseling, licensing, and portfolio strategy matters. She has significant experience in patent and trade secret litigation actions in federal district courts, before the US International Trade Commission, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Mackenzie was named as one of the "Lawyers on the Rise" by Texas Lawyer in 2016, was given the Rising Star Award for IP at Euromoney's 2017 Americas Women in Business Law Awards, and was selected as a Rising Star for intellectual property litigation in Super Lawyers in 2017 to 2021.

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Sharon Byrne is an Associate Director in Baker McKenzie, London office.