Bianca Berardicurti

Practice Areas

Bianca Berardicurti mainly deals with litigation, domestic and international commercial and investment arbitration. She assists leading Italian and foreign financial institutions, corporations and multinational groups, in every aspect of the litigation and arbitration, including pre-litigation and pre-arbitration risk assessment, in civil, financial, commercial, banking, and aviation law. She assists clients both in court and in national and international arbitration proceedings, both institutional and ad hoc.

Bianca also provides assistance in ordinary, precautionary and arbitration proceedings concerning energy and related contracts (EPC and O&M contracts guarantees, etc.) and has gained particular experience in energy-related arbitrations.

Bianca also represents international and Italian companies in arbitration-related proceedings in front of the national courts, such as recognition and enforcement proceedings of arbitral awards.

Bianca has gained considerable experience in financial litigation, with particular reference to litigation on derivative transactions with public and private entities.

Bianca has collaborated with the chair of Civil Law at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre since 2009.

Bianca holds a Ph.D. in European Private law defending the doctoral thesis “The Derivative Contracts under an Italian law – perspective”.

Career

Bianca joined Legance in 2010 as an Associate and became Counsel in 2022.

Professional Memberships

Bianca Berardicurti is:

• Co-Chair of ArbIt (the Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR);

• Vice president of the Italian Chapter of the Club Español del Arbitraje;

• Member of the Cross-Institutional Task Force on Gender Diversity in Arbitral Appointments and Proceedings;

• Fellow of the Roma Tre- Unidroit Centre for Transnational Law and International Arbitration;

• Member of ILA – the International Law Association (Italy Branch).

Publications

Bianca Berardicurti is author, inter alia, of the following articles:

• “Artificial intelligence in International Arbitration: the world is all that is the case”, 40 under 40: International Arbitration, 2021;

• “The Securities Litigation Review”, Seventh Edition, The Law Reviews, 2021;

• “International Arbitration 2020”, ICLG International Comparative Legal Guide, 2020;

• “The Securities Litigation Review”, Sixth Edition, The Law Reviews, 2020;

• “The Italian Insolvency Law: an ambitious, comprehensive reform is expected”, Insolvency and Restructuring International (The Journal of the IBA Insolvency Section), 2017;

• “The Greentech Award” (with Daniele Geronzi), The Greentech Award - Arbitration Committee newsletter article, May 2019;

• “Brexit: Could Arbitration Be A Port In The Storm?”, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, May 12, 2019.