Gianfranco is a Singapore Registered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney, and has been in practice since 1992. He has been practising in Singapore since July 2003.

He holds a Laurea in Biology from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and specialises in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, biomaterials and nanotechnology. He has a wealth of knowledge in intellectual property law, having had global experience from practising in Europe, Japan, and Singapore. In Europe, he represented several pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and in Japan, he was part of the Intellectual Property Department of RIKEN, a Japanese government-funded research institute.

Gianfranco is on the WIPO List of Neutrals, which names independent WIPO arbitrators, mediators and experts from 70 countries. Gianfranco was named an IP Star by the Managing Intellectual Property in 2014, 2015, 2020 and most recently in 2022. He has also been listed as an expert by Who’s Who Legal. He is a ranked individual in the 2020, 2021 & 2022 IAM Patent 1000 rankings, which described him as “highly sought-after”.