Roberto Argeri

Practice Areas

Roberto Argeri has gained an almost twenty-year experience in the international dispute resolution practice of Cleary Gottlieb, focusing on domestic and transnational litigation and arbitration on a wide range of civil and commercial matters, including financial, media, sports, automotive, bankruptcy and competition law.

He is regularly leading the most complex and high-profile cases of the Italian offices of the firm across multiple jurisdictions, requiring an interplay of domestic and foreign law competencies and teams.

Roberto Argeri is part of the Executive Committee of the AIA-ArbIt-40 Group; he is currently a member of AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers).

Since 2021, Roberto has been a member of ICC Institute of World Business Law.

Career

Roberto joined the firm in 2005 as a trainee, became an associate in 2010 and was promoted to counsel at the end of 2019 (effective January 2020). He is now the most senior member of the dispute resolution practice of the Rome office of Cleary Gottlieb.

He took an LLM with distinction at Columbia Law School in 2010 and conducted legal research at the Department of Public Law of Pisa University in 2006, on a scholarship awarded by the Fondazione Uberto Bonino e Maria Sofia Pulejo.

Professional Memberships

Rome

Italian Supreme Courts

Executive Committee of the AIA-ArbIt-40 Group

Member of AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers)

Member of ICC Institute of World Business Law

Publications

• Chapter 16: “‘Bifurcation’ of arbitral proceedings considered from a different angle,” in Arbitration as Balanced Administration of Justice – Essays in Memoriam of Prof. Piero Bernardini - Brill, July 2024 (co-author);

• “Market Shocks: The Impact on the Disputes Landscape,”- PLC Magazine, March 2023 (co-author);

• “La Riforma Della Giustizia Civile Alla Prova Dei Fatti,” published in Formiche.net on April 28, 2021;

• “Sui derivati Cassazione e l’Europa parlano due lingue diverse,” – IlSole24Ore, November 11, 2020 (co-author);

• Chapter “La trascrizione delle domande giudiziali e il foro competente nelle controversie relative a compravendite immobiliari, locazioni di immobili e affitti di aziende”, in Le acquisizioni di immobili e di società immobiliari - E. Russo, Wolters Kluwer Italia, 2009 (co-author);

• Contributor to the Article “Collective Actions In Italy: Much Ado About Nothing?” by Professors M. Siragusa and E. Guerri, published in the first issue (1/2008) of the European Competition Law Review, 2008.

Personal

Columbia Law School

LL.M.

Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

2010

Legal research at the Department of Public Law of Pisa University, on a scholarship awarded by the Fondazione Uberto Bonino e Maria Sofia Pulejo

2006

Università degli Studi di Messina

J.D.

summa cum laude

2005

Languages Spoken

Italian; English