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Aurelia Pons

Counsel
About

Aurelia Pons advises French and foreign companies both in contentious and non-contentious matters involving IT, electronic communications and the Internet.

Aurelia has developed a specific expertise in complex technology disputes. She helps clients navigating through contractual liability issues, extra-contractual liability issues and increasingly intricated regulations applicable to the digital products and services.

She regularly assists clients on subjects such as technical intermediaries liability, content infringement on the Internet, distressed digital projects, data related disputes, software and database infringement, liability resulting from use of software AI tools.

Aurelia regularly speaks and writes on those topics.

EXPERIENCE

  • Assisting a leading global network of sports channels in the first proceedings ever launched in France on the ground of article L. 333-10 of the Sports Code and obtained the first French dynamic blocking injunctions for two major sport competitions internationally renowned.
  • Advising an international software publisher and integrator to successfully navigate a pre-contentious situation within the context of a multi-million strategic IT project (negotiation strategy, preparation of letters to increase negotiation leverage and drafting of contractual amendment and settlement agreement allowing safe continuation of the project).
  • Advising a leading player in the financial sector in proceedings against a saas service provider after the failed implementation of an artificial intelligence project.
  • Assisting an international software publisher throughout a dispute in front of French courts, including during technical judicial expertise.
  • Assisting a major actor of the food industry sector in the management of an audit conducted by a major software provider.
Languages
  • French
  • English
  • Italian
Education
  • Sciences Po Paris, Master in Economic Law, 2011
  • University of Strasbourg, Master in European Law, 2011
  • Sciences Po Paris, Bachelor, 2008


    One year exchange at Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), 2008

Awards

  • Best Lawyers: “Ones to Watch” category – Information Technology Law – 2024

Publications

  • Article: “Contenus illicites en ligne, quelle est l’évolution du régime de responsabilité des hébergeurs ?”, in Pin Code, to be published
  • Article: “Perte de données : que dit la jurisprudence française récente”, in Pin Code, n° 8, August 2021
  • Article: “Régime de responsabilité des hébergeurs : quels sont les changements prévus par la proposition de loi AVIA ?”, in Les Echos Business, July 2019
  • Chapter: “Connected Devices & Digital Transformation: Regulatory Challenges for Electronic Communications Operators”, in DLA Piper Digital Guide: Impact on Sectors, Lettre des Juristes d’Affaires (LJA), April 2019
  • Article: “Une nouvelle application de l'article L. 336-2 du code de la propriété intellectuelle par le Tribunal de grande instance de Paris : quelles implications pour les FAI et les titulaires de droits ?” in Dalloz IP/IT (n°9, 2019)

Prior Experience

Before joining DLA Piper in 2014, Aurelia Pons worked as an associate in the new technology department of one of the major French law firms in Paris and she interned at the EU General Court in Luxembourg.

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