Antonio Ghio

Antonio is a partner at Fenech & Fenech Advocates and heads its TMT & IP Law Departments. His main areas of expertise are TMT; intellectual property; gaming; arts & culture; and litigation.

For the duration of his career, Antonio’s work has solely revolved around ICT law issues, trying to find solutions to the constant struggle existing between law and technology, both inside and outside of the courtrooms.

Antonio’s main areas of practice include legal issues relating to information technology, e-commerce, internet security, electronic signatures, electronic identity, outsourcing, telecommunications, data protection, software, intellectual property, gaming law, cybercrime.

He lectures ICT law and Cyber Crime at the University of Malta, and held the position of Chairman of the Malta Communications Authority after having served as a member of the Board of Directors for five years. He is also a founding member and current President of the Malta Information Technology Law Association – MITLA.

Antonio is a regular speaker on ICT law issues in conferences both locally and abroad and has a regular column on ICT law issues on the Sunday Times of Malta as well as a personal blog on ICT Law issues. He is regularly recommended by clients and peers with respect to various professional directories, including Chambers Global/Europe and Legal 500.