Roberto Argeri

Practice Areas

Roberto Argeri’s practice focuses on domestic and international litigation and arbitration, including complex corporate disputes and insolvency proceedings.

He has more than twenty years’ experience in the firm’s international dispute resolution practice, handling domestic and cross-border litigation and arbitration across a wide range of civil and commercial matters, including financial services, media, intellectual property, sports law, automotive, consumer protection, bankruptcy, and competition law.

Roberto routinely leads the firm’s most complex and high-profile cross-border matters in Italy, coordinating domestic and international legal teams to navigate intricate multi-jurisdictional issues.

He lectures at LUISS Law School on international dispute resolution topics in master’s and postgraduate programs.

Roberto serves on the Executive Committee of the AIA-ArbIt-40 Group and is a member of AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers). Since 2021, he has been a member of the 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 in 2020. He is the most senior member of the dispute resolution practice in Cleary Gottlieb’s Rome office.

He earned an LLM from Columbia Law School in 2009-2010, where he was recognized as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

In 2006, Roberto conducted legal research at the Department of Public Law of Pisa University on a scholarship awarded by the Fondazione Uberto Bonino e Maria Sofia Pulejo.

Professional Memberships

Bar admissions: Rome and Italian Supreme Courts.

Memberships: 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

• “The Jurisdiction of the Italian Civil Judge on Climate Change Litigation: the Landmark Ruling of the Supreme Court in the so-called ‘Just Cause’” (co-author), Ambiente e Diritto, forthcoming 2026

• “Competitiveness Clauses Are Valid if Clear and Applied with Adequate Notice”, ItaliaOggi, November 2025

• “New Ruling on Early Termination Clauses for Euribor-Indexed Loans”, AziendaBanca No. 304, July-August 2025

• “In Depth: International Arbitration”, Lexology, Edition 16, Italy Chapter, June 6, 2025 (co-author)

• 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,” Formiche.net, April 28, 2021

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

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

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

Personal

EDUCATION 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