Expertise

• International litigation and arbitration, as arbitrator and counsel, with particular focus on:
  • international contracts, particularly concerning tenders, energy and M&A
  • international investments
  • international private law
  • international public law
  • international civil procedure
• Foreign languages: English, French, German, Spanish

Background

• Co-Head of the international arbitration practice
• Member of the International Arbitration Focus Team
• Country Partner for Scandinavia
• Joined as a partner in 2017
• President of the Italian Arbitration Association
• Member of the:
  • board of directors of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC)
  • Milan Club of Arbitrators
  • steering committee of the Arbitration and Mediation Centre of Armenia (AMCA)
  • board of directors of the Francarbi association
  • ICC Commission on International Arbitration and ADR
  • board of directors of the European Forum for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA)
  • advisory board of ArbIt (the Italian forum on international arbitration and ADR) of which he is a founder
  • steering committee of the European International Arbitration Review
  • board of directors of Diritto del Commercio Internazionale
  • board of directors of Giustizia Civile
  • editorial board of Rivista dell’arbitrato

• Formerly member of the:
  • board of directors of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC)
  • council of the ICC Institute of International Business Law
  • board of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitral Institutions (IFCAI)
  • steering committee of the Arbitration Commission of Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA)
  • executive board of the Italian Association for Arbitration (AIA)

• Formerly he was:
  • secretary general of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and director of the ICC Dispute Resolution Services (2012–2017)
  • partner at BonelliErede (2010–2012)
  • member of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration (2009–2012)

Ranking and Awards

The Legal 500 EMEA international legal guide lists Andrea as an expert in dispute resolution and international arbitration in Italy.

Qualifications

• Professor of international and EU law (since 2014)
• Lecturer of international commercial law at Università degli Studi di Verona (2021-2022)
• Adjunct professor at Sciences Po School of Law, Paris (since 2017)
• Visiting scholar at the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law of the New York University (January 2015, May 2017)
• Lecturer at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
• Visiting professor at Tuscia University, Viterbo (2009-2010)
• Lecturer at La Sapienza University, Rome (1994-1999)
• Lecturer at LUISS University of Rome (1994-1999)
• Member of the Italian Bar
• Ph.D. from La Sapienza University
• Law degree from La Sapienza University