Working to protect ideas and innovation with legal clarity

Across borders and balance sheets, intellectual property (IP) remains a critical enabler of growth and competitive advantage for today’s global organizations. Yet for many, the speed of innovation continues to outpace established legal frameworks, creating uncertainty around ownership, control — and how best to turn intangible ideas into protected, exclusive assets.

From developing new technologies and commercializing data and content, to scaling innovation across markets, IP challenges increasingly emerge at moments of execution. This is where legal clarity becomes decisive, enabling organizations to innovate with confidence without compromising long-term value.

With a multidisciplinary approach across legal and business advisory, our specialist intellectual property lawyers help organizations with their IP needs: strengthening IP throughout the full lifecycle, supporting innovation that grows globally in practice, not just in principle — and granting IP holders a key competitive advantage.

How we help

The KPMG Law Intellectual Property practice supports organizations in the creation, commercialization and embedding of IP into business operations. Working with both creators and users of IP, we help ensure legal frameworks reflect how clients innovate and transact to scale across jurisdictions.

Drawing on sector-specific insight, technology-enabled delivery and our wider global organization of professionals, our dedicated lawyers can provide expertise across various aspects of IP generation, protection and enforcement.

Defining and protecting IP

From advising on ownership models and exclusivity to crafting practical strategies that reflect how IP is developed and actually used, our IP lawyers help organizations identify, define and structure intellectual property from the outset.

Commercializing and leveraging IP

With specialist lawyers committed to navigating commercial and licensing arrangements, we support our clients to help increase company value through IP, clarify rights, reduce ambiguity and align IP terms with business operations.

IP in transactions and transformation

Central to major transactions and change initiatives, we advise on how IP is assessed, structured and transferred. From mergers and acquisitions to business transformations, our IP practice supports execution and long-term value realization.

IP in data-driven technologies

As organizations accelerate data and AI-driven technologies, the complexity of IP-related questions increases. Our lawyers help navigate this changing landscape, advising on IP considerations linked to AI-enabled innovation and data-driven technologies.

Our technology

With significant investment in our own proprietary legal AI technologies and alliances across the globe, we combine legal experience with technology-enabled delivery to help organizations address IP complexity with confidence and transparency.

Designed to enable smarter decisions, faster execution and confident cross-border collaboration, KPMG Digital Gateway helps you connect the IP dots across data and departments, enhancing outcomes all from a single platform.

Your intellectual property needs. Supported by our global legal capabilities

Delivering IP advice that keeps pace with innovation requires experienced legal insight integrated with operational, technological and strategic perspectives. At KPMG Law, our multidisciplinary IP practice combines with a global organization of KPMG firms to help deliver just that, ready to support your legal IP needs.

With over 3,600 legal professionals across more than 80 jurisdictions, our global services platform can help you protect the future, with IP at its core.

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Our people

Marina Lanfranconi

Principal, Intellectual Property, Media & New Technologies

KPMG in Italy

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