Expertise

• Art and cultural property with particular focus on:
  • protection and circulation of cultural heritage
  • international agreements of restitution and return of cultural objects
  • international transactions in the art sector
  • long term agreements of cultural cooperation and loans of artworks
  • International cultural cooperation agreements, and in particular national and international commercial arbitration both as lawyer and arbitrator

Foreign Languages: English, French

Background

• Member of the Art and Cultural Property Focus Team
• Member of the Private Clients Focus Team
• Member of the Public International Law & Economic Diplomacy Focus Team
• Joined BonelliErede as Of Counsel in 2016

• Assisted cultural and art foundations, auction houses, associations of art sector operators and also some major museums
• Consultant to UNESCO, Unidroit and the European Commission with regard the circulation of works of cultural heritage and the fight against illegal trafficking
• Member of the ICOM Legal Affairs Committee (LEAC)
• Author of several publications concerning contractual obligations, international cooperation in the field of civil and commercial procedure, applicable law and the linguistic factor in the circulation of arbitral awards, and on the international protection and circulation of cultural property

Qualifications

• Full Professor of International and European Law and of International Contracts and Arbitration Law at the University of Milan and visiting professor in prestigious foreign Universities
• Member of the Steering Committee for the PhD in International Economic Law at Bocconi University in Milan
• Member of the Committee on Cultural Heritage Law of the International Law Association
• Member of the Italian Bar, admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione)
• Law degree from the University of Milan