Practice Areas
Fabio specializes in arbitration (both domestic and international) and court litigation. He has participated as counsel, arbitrator, secretary or assistant to the arbitral tribunal in around 50 arbitrations across a variety of sectors (such as energy, telecommunications, construction, defence and insurance) under all major arbitration rules (ICC, ICSID, SIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and Milan Chamber of Arbitration). He has also developed a court litigation practice centering on commercial disputes and arbitration-related proceedings (particularly pre-arbitral injunctive relief and post-award proceedings).
Career
He graduated summa cum laude from Bocconi University and obtained an LLM from the University of Cambridge. Before joining ArbLit, where he made Partner in 2023, he was a member of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s International Arbitration Group and, prior to that, of Hogan Lovell’s M&A department in Milan. Between 2021 and 2024, Fabio was a Regional Representative for Europe of ICC YAAF, ICC’s below 40 association and one of the largest of that kind in the world.
Publications
“Human Rights in International Arbitration” (Oxford University Press), Co-author with Massimo Benedettelli, forthcoming.
“Impartiality and independence of arbitrators in France and Italy: Where do we stand?”, Co-author with Vincenzo Antonio Speciale, Les cahiers de l’arbitrage (The Paris Journal of International Arbitration) (Lextenso), Vol. 4 2024, 775-798.
“Thou Shalt Have the Power to Grant Interim Relief: The Reform of the Italian Regime on Arbitral Interim Relief”, Co-author with Andrea Melchionda, Journal of International Arbitration (Wolters Kluwer), Vol 40(4)
2023, 479–494.
“The Reform of Italian Arbitration Law”, Co-author with A. Melchionda, Arbitration & Mediation (Nomiki Bibliothiki), Vol. 9(5) 2023.
“Sulla derogabilità della giurisdizione delle corti (o di altra autorità) dello Stato della sede con riguardo alla funzione di supporto e controllo dell’arbitrato”, Commentary to Court of Appeal of Milan, 7 May 2020, in Rivista dell’Arbitrato, 2021, 1, pp. 101-112.
“The Applicability of Human Rights Law in International Investment Disputes” in ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal (Oxford University Press), Vol. 34(1) 2019, 136–155.
“Navigating the troubled waters between jurisdiction and admissibility: an analysis of which law should govern characterization of preliminary issues in international arbitration”, in Arbitration International (Oxford University Press), Vol. 33(4) 2017, 539–570.
“The emergency arbitrator: a full-fledged arbitrator rendering an enforceable decision?”, in Arbitration International (Oxford University Press), Vol.31(2) 2015, 283-312.
“Efficacia ed eseguibilità delle decisioni dell’emergency arbitrator negli Stati Uniti”, in Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (Giuffrè), 2014, 2.
Experience
As counsel, Fabio's recent experience includes: (i) assisting a leading Italian energy group in two parallel ICC arbitrations against a European multinational group arising out of two contracts for the provision of energy services; (ii) successfully representing a leading German multinational group active in the defence sector in multibillion ICC arbitration proceedings brought against it by a European State; and (iii) successfully defending the Mexican subsidiary of a prominent Italian steel-making group in an ICC arbitration and in post-award proceedings relating to a project for the construction in the US of one of the world’s largest iron-production plants.
Fabio’s recent experience also include acting as: (i) Sole Arbitrator in an ICC “expedited arbitration” between an Italian company and a German company arising from a distribution agreement; (ii) Sole Arbitrator in an ICC arbitration between an Italian company and a Swiss company arising out of a construction project; and (iii) Assistant to the Arbitral Tribunal in ICSID Case No. ARB/19/19 (IC Power Ltd and Kenon Holdings Ltd v. Republic of Peru).
