Band 2
Provided by Marco Lopez de Gonzalo
Marco has a wide experience in shipping and trade law, covering charterparties and bills of lading, carriage of goods, casualties, shipbuilding, purchase of ships and aircrafts, CIF and FOB contracts.
He also acts for banks and shipowners in financing transaction and debt restructuring
Marco has many times been appointed as an arbitrator in Italy and England.
Since 2001 he is a professor of Shipping Law in the University of Milan.
Marco’s practice includes both litigation and advisory work. He has been involved in major casualties (the “Moby Prince”, the fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel), in energy projects (regasification units, underwater pipelines), in complex transnational litigation, in drafting contracts for logistic services and for cable laying.
Because of his academic background he is often requested to provide affidavits in foreign proceedings.
Marco is the author of two monographs, one university textbook, many articles in law reviews; he is also invited as a speaker to conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad.
AIDIM - Italian Maritime Law Association (head of Genoa committee);
AIA - Italian Arbitration Association ( chairman of the Focus Group on maritime arbitration);
SIDI – Italian International Law Association;
Diritto Marittimo law review (chief editor);
Propeller Club of Milan (member of the directive committee);
ASLA - Associated Law Firms Association.
L’obbligazione di consegna nella vendita marittima (Giuffrè 1997);
Giurisdizione civile e trasporto marittimo (Giuffrè 2005);
Il diritto marittimo attraverso i casi e le clausole contrattuali (Giappichelli 2015);
Articles in Diritto Marittimo, Diritto del Commercio Internazionale, Rivista di Diritto Internazionale e Processuale, Diritto del Turismo, Contratto e Impresa.
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