Expertise

• International arbitration, as counsel, arbitrator or chairman, with particular focus on:
  • international contracts (construction contracts, joint venture agreements, concessions, oil and gas contracts, contracts for supply of industrial plants, distribution, agency, sales, share purchase agreements, telecommunications contracts)
  • international trade law in general
  • international investment law and related disputes

• Advice to Italian and foreign companies investing abroad in the erection of industrial plants, construction of civil works, supply of machinery and equipment, construction of infrastructures and the like

Foreign languages: English, French, Spanish

Background

• Member of the International Arbitration Focus Team
• Made Of counsel in 2008
• Joined as a partner in 1999

• Member of the:
  • Institute of World Business Law of the International Chamber of Commerce
  • International Arbitration Institute
  • IAI (correspondent for Italy)
  • Milan Club of Arbitrators
  • LCIA
  • Dubai Arbitration Centre
  • Cairo Arbitration Centre

• Involved in approximately 250 arbitrations administered by ICC, ICSID, LCIA, Milan Arbitral Chamber, Cairo Centre, Stockholm Arbitration Institute, Vienna Arbitration Centre, Bangkok Arbitration Institute, Dubai Arbitration Centre, and ad hoc arbitrations conducted under the UNCITRAL and FED rules
• Appointed by Italy as Member of the ICSID List of Arbitrators.
• Speaker at numerous international and Italian conventions and seminars on matters of international Trade law, European law, international investment law, international and domestic arbitration, and comparative law

Ranking and Awards

The Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 EMEA international legal directories list Antonio as an expert in arbitration both in Italy and internationally

Testimonials

“He is widely recognised as a leading light in international arbitration.”

(Chambers & Partners)

Qualifications

• Professor of international trade law and international contracts at the University of Padua (1973-1994)
• Professor of international law at the University of Mogadiscio, Somalia (1974)
• Visiting professor at Harvard Law School (1974-1975)
• Lecturer on the post graduate international trade law course at the International Training Centre, ILO, Turin (1990-2004)
• Professor of the master’s in international business law at the University of Padua (1995-2002)
• Political Sciences degree from the University of Padua