Luca G. Radicati di Brozolo
EDUCATION
- Degree in Law (University of Parma, 1986)
- Degree in Political Science (University of Florence, 1974)
ADMISSIONS
- Milan Bar
- Italian Supreme Court
- Registered European Lawyer with the Bar Standards Board for England and Wales
LANGUAGES
- Italian, English, Spanish, French, German
Luca is a founding partner of ArbLit and a door tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London.
Until 2019 he was also a Full Professor at the School of Law of the Università Cattolica di Milano, where he held the chair of Private International Law and also taught Law of International Arbitration.
Professional
For the past fifteen years Luca’s practice has focused primarily on arbitration and international litigation.
He is one of Italy’s top arbitration specialists and is highly regarded abroad, also through his writings (which include an authoritative Commentary on arbitration law in Italy and scholarly contributions in a variety of prestigious publications) and his activities in professional bodies, including the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC (from 2009 to 2015), the Court of the LCIA (of which he is a member since 2016 and a Vice-President since 2019), the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association (of which he is a past Vice-Chair) and the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration of the International Law Association, of which he was corapporteur on three projects.
He was the delegate for the Italian Government at the 33rd and 34th Sessions of the UNCITRAL Working Group on International Arbitration (2000 and 2001). Prior to forming ArbLit, he was one of the spearheads of his previous firm’s prestigious arbitration practice.
He has a vast experience as counsel and as presiding, sole and party-appointed arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional domestic and international arbitrations in many different seats and under a variety of rules (ICC, LCIA, Milan Chamber of Arbitration, Stockholm Arbitration Chamber, Danish Institute of Arbitration, Geneva Chamber of Commerce, Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Milan, UNCITRAL, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, European Development Fund) and laws governing the merits. As arbitrator he has sat in cases applying the laws of Italy, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Costa-Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Senegal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods and international law.
His experience in commercial arbitration covers contractual disputes, post-M&A, distributorship agreements, energy, construction, telecoms, gas-price review, financial transactions, defense, aviation and disputes involving States and State entities.
He has significant expertise in investor-State arbitration, having been involved as counsel or arbitrator in several high profile ICSID and UNCITRAL investor-state arbitrations, including as counsel for the successful claimant in Saipem v. Bangladesh and in two cases brought by Italian holders of Argentine bonds against the Republic of Argentina, Giovanni Alemanni and others v. Argentine Republic and Ambiente Ufficio S.p.A. and others v. Argentine Republic, in both of which the ICSID tribunals upheld jurisdiction. He is currently acting for several groups of foreign investors in UNCITRAL proceedings under different bilateral investment treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty against the Czech Republic in the photovoltaic sector.
He also acts as advisor and counsel in transnational court litigation, with a particular focus on issues of public international law and of conflict of laws and jurisdiction, as well as in court proceedings relating to arbitration. He has appeared as an expert on Italian law, arbitration law, conflict of laws and jurisdictions and competition law in proceedings before arbitral tribunals (including in an ICSID case) and domestic courts (most recently in Australia, England, France, Italy, Sweden and the United States).
Luca is a leading expert on the interactions between arbitration and competition and merger control law, as well as in private antitrust litigation. He was the co-chair of the Joint Working Group of the ICC Competition and Arbitration and ADR Commissions on Antitrust Follow-on Actions.
He is Vice-President of the Court of the LCIA and a member of the Comité Asesor del Pleno de la Corte de Arbitraje de Madrid. He is listed on the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators on the appointment of the Republic of Italy. He is an alternate member of the FIA Driver Contract Recognition Board.
Luca has been listed in Chambers Global since 2000 and is ranked in Band 1, Most in Demand Arbitrators, for Italy and in Band 2 Most in Demand Arbitrators Europe-Wide in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe since 2016, which have called him “driven and passionate” and referred to “his impressive arbitration practice” and “razor-sharp legal mind” and to the view that “he is a top arbitrator and truly international”. He is also “highly recommended for domestic and international arbitration” in the 2015 edition of Legal 500 and is described in GAR 100 as “no stranger to breaking new ground at ICSID”.
Who’s Who Legal, who listed Luca as a Thought Leader in 2017 and 2018 and put him first amongst the Most Highly Regarded arbitration practitioners in Italy, says of him that he “draws effusive praise from international sources who describe him as ‘an excellent academic and arbitrator‘”. Who’s Who Legal also describes him as “very competent and extremely balanced” and a “dream arbitrator” with “an excellent reputation for insightful, value added work” and “very well known for investment disputes”.
Before founding ArbLit, Luca served as a member of the office of the Legal Advisor at the Bank for International Settlements (the “Bank of the Central Banks”) in Basel, Switzerland (1978-1984). For the following thirty years he was a partner in two of Italy most prestigious law firms: Chiomenti, where he headed its Brussels office and its International, European and Competition law department (1984-2000), and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo (now BonelliErede) where he was a member of the European/antitrust law and of the International Litigation and Arbitration practice groups; he was also in charge of the Dispute Resolution Desk of that firm’s London office (2001-2014).
Throughout his carreer Luca has advised and represented top private and public Italian and international clients in a broad variety of matters (including the European Commission before the European Court of Justice and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in relation to proceedings before the Iran-US Claims Tribunal).
These have ranged from his areas of main academic specialization (conflict of laws and jurisdictions, arbitration and public international law) to banking and finance and all aspects of European Union law and competition law (mergers, cartels and abuses of dominant position, state aids, public procurement, telecommunications, energy, circulation of services and establishment, particularly in the area of financial services and telecommunications law). He was one of the first, and for many years of the most active and reputed, competition lawyers in Italy as evidenced by his rankings in the specialized publications. He was particularly involved in the initial phase of privatizations and liberalizations in Italy, having amongst others acted for the first private mobile telephone operator upon its entry into the Italian market. His activity as a competition lawyer and his involvement for his other areas of expertise in the transactions handled by his previous firms allowed him to gain experience in a variety of economic sectors and areas of law, including corporate and M&A transactions, energy, telecommunications, utilities, financial and regulated markets, gaming.
Luca has appeared frequently before Italian courts, including the Council of State and the Constitutional Court, as well as the Court of Justice and the General Court of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights, and administrative authorities (the European Commission and the Italian Competition Authority and telecom regulator).
Academic
Luca is the author and editor or co-editor of six books and one commentary and over 150 articles published in Italian and international law reviews and other publications on topics of private international law, the law of arbitration, public international law, European Union law, competition law, telecommunications law, international financial law (Publications). He is a regular speaker at, and organizer of, academic and practitioners’ conferences, symposia, workshops and courses.
In addition to his tenured position at the Law School of the Catholic University of Milan (and prior to that in several other Italian Universities), he has held the following teaching and research appointments: Lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law, Private International Law Session (2003); Visiting fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge, England (1990 and 1995), and Max Planck Institut für Internationales und Ausländisches Privatrecht, Hamburg, Germany (1987); Visiting Professor, Institut d’Etudes Européennes of the Free University of Brussels (1991-92); Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School (1996; 2000 and 2002); Visiting Scholar, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley (1998 and 1999); Visiting Professor, University of Paris II (2007); Lecturer at the External Program of the Hague Academy of International Law in Buenos Aires (2012); Scholar in Residence at the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law at New York University Law School (2014); Visiting Global Professor of International Commercial Arbitration, New York University Law School (2018).
He held the General Course of Private International Law at the 2018 session of the Hague Academy of International Law on “The Legal Framework of Transnational Commercial Transactions“.
- ICC International Court of Arbitration
- ILA – International Law Association, Committee on International Commercial Arbitration: Co-Rapporteur of the Reports on “Ascertaining the Content of the Applicable Law in International Arbitration” (adopted August 2008), on “Confidentiality in International Arbitration” (adopted August 2010) and on “The inherent powers ofarbitrators” (2014).
- IBA – International Bar Association, Former Vice-Chair, Arbitration Committee and former Chair, Sub-Committee on the Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards
- Milan Arbitrators’ Club
- ALI – American Law Institute, Member of the Consultative Group on the Restatement (Third), International Commercial Arbitration
- Club Español de Arbitraje
- ICCA
- Board of editors of Cahiers de l’Arbitrage /The Paris Journal of International Arbitration; Revue de l’arbitrage, Rivista dell’arbitrato; Revista de Arbitragem e Mediação; Cahiers de droit européen; Banca Borsa e Titoli di Credito; Diritto del Commercio Internazionale; Diritto dell’Unione Europea, Revista do IBRAC- Derieto da Concorrência, consumo e comércio internacional
- Italian Arbitration Association
- Scientific Committee of the Italian Arbitration Association
- International Arbitration Institute
- Italian Branch of the International Law Association (Secretary of the Branch 2002-2013)
- Formerly: Group of Experts of the European Commission on the Interface between the Brussels I Regulation (Reg. 44/2001) and Arbitration; Monetary Committee of the International Law Association; Union Internationale des Avocats (EU law and private international law sections); Association européenne de droit bancaire et financier (Member of the Comité Scientifique) ; Groupe Système Européen de Banques centrales; Competition Law Section of the Italian Branch of the ICC; ICC Task Force on arbitrating competition law issues; Working Group on Arbitration of the Associazione Studi Legali Associati (ASLA)
ARBITRATION
BOOKS
Commentario breve al diritto dell’arbitrato interno e internazionale (2nd ed), Cedam, Padova, 2018, (co-editor with Massimo Benedettelli and Claudio Consolo)
Arbitrage commercial international et lois de police: considérations sur les conflits de juridictions dans le commerce international, in Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, vol. 315, 2006, pp. 269-501 (course delivered at the 2003 Session of the Hague Academy of International Law)
ARTICLES
“International commercial arbitration and private international law”, in F. Ferrari, A. Bjorklund and S. Kröll (Eds.), Cambridge compendium of international commercial arbitration, forthcoming, 2019
“International Commercial Arbitration”, in J. Basedow, F. Ferrari, P. De Miguel Asensio, G. Ruhl (Eds), Encyclopedia of Private International Law, Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2017
“Applying the rules governing the merits in international commercial arbitration”, in F. Ferrari & F. Rosenfeld, (eds.), Inherent powers in international adjudication, 2018, 269-295
“International Commercial Arbitration”, in J. Basedow, F. Ferrari, P. De Miguel Asensio, G. Ruhl (Eds), Encyclopedia of Private International Law, Edward Elgar, vol. 1, 2018, 86-97
“When, Why and How must Arbitrators Apply Overriding Mandatory Provisions?”, in F. Ferrari (ed.), The Impact of EU Law on international commercial arbitration, Juris, 2017, 351-382
Party Autonomy and the Rules Applicable to the Merits in International Arbitration”, in F. Ferrari (ed.), Limits to Party Autonomy in International Commercial Arbitration, Juris, 2016, 331-362
“L’autorité de la chose jugée des décisions relatives à l’annulation des sentences: l’expérience récente des Etats Unis” in Revue de l’arbitrage, 2016
“Representative Aspects of Mass Claim Proceedings” in ICC Dossier XIV on Class & Group Actions in Arbitration, 2016 (with F. Ponzano)
“Autonomia negoziale e ruolo del diritto materiale nell’arbitrato internazionale e interno” in Rivista dell’Arbitrato, 2016, 1-31 (also in Atti del 10° Convengno Internazionale della Società Italiana degli Studiosi del Diritto Civile, 2016, 203-238).
“Usages and Implied Terms in Italy”, in F. Gélinas (ed.) Trade Usages and Implied Terms in the Age of Arbitration, Oxford, 2016, 59-80 (with G. Marchisio)
“Confidentiality within Arbitration”, in Confidential and Restricted Access to Information in International Arbitration, ASA Special Series No. 43, 2016, 1-20 (with F. Ponzano)
“Where is Investor-State Arbitration Heading? Reflections on the Debate over EU Investor Protection Agreements”, in International Arbitration Under Review, Essays in Honour of John Beechey, ICC, 2015, p. 319-342
“Ethics and the Law Applicable to the Merits in Arbitration”, Mélanges en l’honneur du Professeur Pierre Mayer, LGDJ, Paris, 2015, 753-769
“Remedies against state interference with arbitration”, [2015] International Arbitration Law Review, 27-33
“Arbitration under Investment Protection Agreements between the EU and Non-Member States”, World Arbitration Reports, Rel. 8-2015 (with Federica Iorio)
“The enforcement of annulled awards: further reflections in light of Thai Lao-Lignite“, 25 The American Review of International Arbitration, 47-61 (2014)
“The Inherent Powers of Arbitrators”, Final Report of the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration of the International Law Association presented at the Washington, DC Conference, May 2014 (co-rapporteur with Mark Friedman)
“Class arbitration in Europe?”, in A. Nuyts & N.E. Hatzimihail (Eds.), Cross-Border Class Actions, The European Way, Sellier, 2013, 209
“The enforcement of annulled awards: an important step in the right direction”, Cahiers de l’Arbitrage / Paris Journal of International Arbitration, 2013, 1027
“EU Merger Control Commitments and Arbitration: Reti Televisive Italiane v. Sky TV”, Arbitration International, 2013, 223-242 (in Italian in Rivista dell’arbitrato, 2013, 227-246)
“International Arbitration and Domestic Law”, International Commercial Arbitration – Different Forms and Their Features (G. Cordero Moss, ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2013, 40-59
“Las normas imperativas y el arbitraje internacional”, in Cuestiones claves del arbitraje international (E. Gaillard, D. P. Fernandez Arroyo, eds), Bogota, 2013, 189-224
“The control system of arbitral awards: a pro-arbitration critique of Michael Reisman’s ‘Normative architecture of international commercial arbitration’ “, Arbitration ? The Next Fifty Years, ICCA Congress Series No. 16, 2012, 74-102
“Arbitration and Mandatory Rules”, American Review of International Arbitration, 2012, 49-74
“Enhancing the Effectiveness of Arbitration in Asia: Towards Less State Interference?”, Transnational Dispute Management, December 2011, Issue 5
“Competition Law and Arbitration”, Competition Law International, November 2011, 12
“The impact of National Law and Courts on International Commercial Arbitration: Mythology, Physiology, Pathology, Remedies and Trends”, Les Cahiers de l’Arbitrage – The Paris International Arbitration Journal, 2011, 663
“Res judicata”, Post Award Issues (P. Tercier, ed.), ASA Special Series No. 38, 2011, 127 (in Portuguese: “Os efeitos de coisa julgada de sentenças arbitrais internacionais”, Arbitragem e Comércio Internacional, Estudos em Homagem a Luiz Olavo Baptista, Sao Paulo, 2013, 735)
“Arbitration and the draft revised Brussels I Regulation: Seeds of home country control and of harmonization?”, Journal of Private International Law, 2011, 423 (in Italian in Rivista dell’Arbitrato, 2011, 187)
“L’Italia e l’arbitrato internazionale”, Corriere Giuridico, 2011/1 (with Massimo V. Benedettelli)
“Arbitration and Competition Law: the Position of Courts and of Arbitrators”, Arbitration International, 2011, 1 and Revista de Arbitragem e Mediaciao (in Portuguese), 2010, 162
“Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration”, Final Report of the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration of the International Law Association adopted at the Hague Conference, August 2010 (co-rapporteur with Mark Friedman), Arbitration International, 2012, 355
“Requiem pour le régime dualiste de l’arbitrage? Rèflexions sur la réforme italienne de l’arbitrage international”, Arbitrage interne et international (A. Bonomi, A. Bochatay, Eds.), Genève, 2010, 217 (also Rivista di diritto processuale, 2010, 1267 in Italian and in Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem, in Portuguese)
“Arbitrage et droit de la concurrence: vers un consensus”, Les Cahiers de l’Arbitrage – The Paris International Arbitration Journal, 2010, 181
“Choice of court and arbitration agreements and the review of the Brussels I Regulation”, IPRax – Praxis des internationalen privat- und verfahrensrecht, 2010, 121
“Unlawful Interference with international arbitration by national courts of the seat in the aftermath of Saipem v. Bangladesh”, Liber Amicorum Bernardo Cremades, Madrid, 2010, 993 (with L. Malintoppi)
“Interference by national courts with international arbitration: the situation after Saipem v. Bangladesh”, New Developments in International Commercial Arbitration 2009 (A. Müller, A. Rigozzi, eds.), Zürich, 2009, 1.
“Court Review of Competition Law Awards in Setting Aside and Enforcements Proceedings”, EU and US Antitrust Arbitration (G. Blanke, Ph. Landolt, eds.), Kluwer, 2010, § 35-001.
“Ascertaining the Content of the Applicable Law in International Commercial Arbitration”, Final Report of the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration of the International Law Association adopted at the Rio de Janeiro Conference of 2008 (co-rapporteur with Mark Friedman), Arbitration International, 2010, n. 2
“Chassés croisées franco-belge: à propos de l’affaire Cytec”, Rev. Arbitrage, 2007, 318 (note à Trib. Première instance de Bruxelles, 8 mars 2007) (with A. Mourre)
“Arbitration in EC Merger Control: Old Wine in a New Bottle”, European Journal of Business Law, 2007, 7
“L’insoutenable légèreté de l’ordre public (encore à propos du droit de la concurrence) », note à Tribunal Fédéral Suisse, 8 mars 2006, Revue de l’arbitrage, 2006, 769
“Arbitrato e norme imperative: oltre l’arbitrabilità”, AIDA – Annali Italiani del Diritto d’Autore, 2006, 111
“Controllo del lodo internazionale e ordine pubblico”, Riv. dell’arbitrato, 2006, 629
“L’illicéité «qui crève les yeux» : le critère de contrôle des sentences au regard de l’ordre public international”, Revue de l’arbitrage, 2005, 529 (note à Appel Paris, 18 novembre 2004, Thalès c. Euromissile)
“Towards finality in international arbitration : two steps forward and one step back”, J. of Int’l Arb., 2006, 171 (with A. Mourre)
“Arbitrato e diritto della concorrenza: il problema risolto e le questioni aperte”, Rivista dell’arbitrato, 2004, 1
“Antitrust: A Paradigm of the Relations Between Arbitration and Mandatory Rules – A Fresh Look at the ‘Second Look’ “, International Arbitration Law Review, 2004, 23
“The settlement of disputes in the Telecommunications Sector: NRAs vs Arbitration”, Report at the ICC Seminar on Dispute Settlement in the Telecommunications Sector, International Chamber of Commerce, September 2004″
“Mondialisation, juridiction, arbitrage: vers des lois d’application semi-immédiate?”, Revue critique de droit international privé, 2003, 1
“Arbitrato, diritto della concorrenza, diritto comunitario e regole di procedura nazionali”, Rivista dell’arbitrato, 1999, 665
CONFLICTS OF LAWS AND JURISDICTIONS
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
BOOKS
La giurisdizione esecutiva e cautelare nei confronti degli Stati stranieri, Milan, Giuffré, 1992.
ARTICLES
“Immunità degli Stati e ragion di Stato nella sentenza Al-Adsani della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo”, Int’l lis, 2002, 91
“The Freezing Of Assets Of International Terrorist Organizations”, Enforcing International Law Norms Against Terrorism (A. Bianchi, ed.), Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, 2004, 377-413 (with Mauro Megliani)
“La coercizione sui beni statali stranieri: l’Italia volta finalmente pagina”, Riv. dir. internaz., 1992, 356
“Protezione diplomatica delle società e degli azionisti e trattato di amicizia Italia-Stati Uniti: il caso Raytheon-Elsi davanti alla Corte internazionale di giustizia”, Diritto del commercio internazionale, 1990, 385
“Note on Cass. (s.u.) 4 maggio 1989, n. 2085 and Cass. (s.u.) 25 maggio 1989, n. 2502”, American Journal of International Law, 1990, 573
“A Trustee in Continental Europe: The Experience of the Bank for International Settlements”, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Session of the Hague Conference On Private International Law, The Hague, 1984, 124 and Netherlands Int. Law Rev., 1983, 330 (with G.K. Simons)
“Banca dei Regolamenti Internazionali”, Enciclopedia giuridica, Ist. Encicl. Ital., 1983
“La soluzione delle controversie tra Stati e stranieri mediante accordo internazionale: gli accordi tra Stati Uniti ed Iran”, Riv. dir. internaz., 1982, 299
“La prima fase del contenzioso relativo agli averi iraniani bloccati dagli Stati Uniti”, Riv. dir. internaz., 1981, 328-357
“Organizzazione intergovernativa marittima consultiva”, Enciclopedia del diritto, vol. XXIII.
“Sulle questioni preliminari nella procedura consultiva davanti alla Corte internazionale di giustizia”, Riv. dir. internaz., 1976, 677-709
“L’azione del Fondo Monetario Internazionale nel sistema delle Nazioni Unite”, Riv. dir. internaz. 1975, 557-583
EUROPEAN UNION LAW
ARTICLES
“Il mercato unico dei servizi bancari e finanziari”, … (A. Tizzano, ed. ), Torino, Giappichelli, 2007
“Economic Rights and Freedoms: Whereto Europe?”, Mélanges pour Jean-Victor Louis, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2003
“L’Unione ed i diritti fondamentali: un passo avanti e due indietro (sui diritti economici)?”, Diritto dell’Unione europea, 2003, 551
“La Corte di giustizia va alla Scala: normativa comunitaria sugli appalti e effetti delle sentenze interpretative”, Corriere giuridico, 2002, 247
“Diritti esclusivi: anche l’INAIL si infortuna” Il diritto dell’Unione Europea, 1999, 171
“Gestione collettiva del risparmio e operatori comunitari: il t.u.f. viola il Trattato CE”, Banca, borsa e titoli di credito, 1999, I, 470
“Regime delle ritenute sui finanziamenti esteri: incompatibilità con il diritto comunitario?”, Bollettino tributario, 1999, 1253-4
“Ostacoli alla libertà di stabilimento e diritti speciali: spunti in tema di farmacie e società «miste» comunali”, Giurisprudenza commerciale, 1998, I, 844 and Studi in onore del prof. Francesco Capotorti, II, Milano, Giuffré, 1999, 341
“La nuova disposizione sui servizi di interesse generale”, Il diritto dell’Unione Europea, 1998, 527
“Italian Report (and co-author of the General Report), J.-V. Louis (ed), Banking supervision in the European Community, Bruxelles, 1995.
“L’Italia e il mercato unico dei servizi bancari: un primo commento alla normativa di attuazione della Seconda direttiva bancaria”, Banca, borsa e titoli di credito, 1993, I, 465
“I limiti del mutuo riconoscimento nella libera prestazione dei servizi bancari nella Cee”, Zur Europaverträglichkeit im privatrechtlichen Bereich (F.-E. Klein, ed.) , Basel, 1991
“L’ambito di applicazione della legge del paese di origine nella libera prestazione dei servizi bancari nella CEE”, Foro italiano, 1990, IV, 454
“Some Legal Aspects of the European Monetary System”, Riv. dir. internaz., 1980, 330-354.
“Ancora sul carattere quasi-contenzioso della procedura ex art. 228, par. 1, al 2, del Trattato C.e.e.”, Riv. dir. internaz., 1979, 712
“La funzione consultiva della Corte comunitaria in materia di relazioni esterne”, Riv. dir. internaz., 1979, 116
COMPETITION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAW
BOOKS
Il diritto comunitario delle telecomunicazioni – un modello di liberalizzazione di un servizio pubblico, Torino, Giappichelli, 1999
Servizi essenziali e diritto comunitario (as editor), Torino, Giappichelli, 2001
Il Mercato Unico dei Servizi (as editor, with F. Bestagno), Giuffré, 2007
Codice delle telecomunicazioni, Torino, Giappichelli, 1998
ARTICLES
“Decisioni di accettazione degli impegni e private enforcement del diritto antitrust”, Diritto del commercio internazionale, 2011, 1047 (with F. Russo)
“Partecipazione alle gare e regole di concorrenza”, Diritto del commercio internazionale, 2002, 805 (with Magnus Gustafsson)
“Full-function Joint Ventures under the Merger Regulation: the Need for a Clarification”, European Competition Law Review, 2003, 574-579 (with Magnus Gustafsson)
“Il nuovo quadro delle telecomunicazioni: Convergenza, concorrenza, regolazione e asimmetria”, Mercato, concorrenza e regole, 2002, 561 and Convergenza: verso il diritto della convergenza? (A. Morbidelli, F. Donati, eds), Torino, 2003, 105-136
“La «separazione strutturale» nel settore delle telecomunicazioni?”, Diritto del commercio internazionale, 2001, 605-623 (with Aurelio Pappalardo)
“E se la garanzia dello Stato non fosse valida? La Comunicazione in tema di garanzie pubbliche”, Il diritto dell’Unione Europea, 2000, 691-697
“Telecomunicazioni e televisione”, Il diritto privato dell’Unione Europea (A. Tizzano, ed.), Giappichelli, Torino, 2000, 485-565
“Un primo confronto tra la liberalizzazione delle telecomunicazioni nel sistema del WTO e della Comunità Europea”, in Atti della II Conferenza dell’Associazione Italiana di Diritto Internazionale, Napoli 1998, 231
“Simmetria e asimmetria nel diritto comunitario delle telecomunicazioni”, Diritto dell’informazione e dell’informatica, 1997, 501
“L’azione comunitaria in materia di telecomunicazioni”, Il diritto dell’unione europea, 1996, 1093
“La liberalizzazione delle telecomunicazioni in Italia : la decisione ex art. 90(3) del Trattato CE nel caso Omnitel”, Diritto del commercio internazionale, 1996, 75-102
“Profili di diritto comunitario del mercato dell’energia elettrica”, Rivista italiana di diritto pubblico comunitario, 1995, 431
“Liquidazione dell’EFIM e norme comunitarie in tema di aiuti: Il problema degli effetti delle garanzie dello Stato a favore delle imprese pubbliche”, Dir. del commercio internaz., 1993, 539
The most significant experience of Luca Radicati di Brozolo as arbitrator and counsel includes the following cases.
ARBITRATOR
Investor-State arbitrations
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICSID arbitration between a Mexican telecommunications company and the Republic of Colombia (ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/16/5, América Móvil S.A.B. de C.V. v. Republic of Colombia)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICSID arbitration between a Swedish investor in an oil refinery and the Kingdom of Morocco (ICSID Case No. ARB/18/7, Corral Morocco Holdings AB v. Kingdom of Morocco)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICSID arbitration between two Singaporean power generation companies and the Republic of Peru (ICSID Case No. ARB/19/19, IC Power Ltd and Kenon Holdings Ltd v. Republic of Peru)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICSID arbitration between U.S. investors and the Republic of Nicaragua (ICSID Case No. ARB/17/44, The Lopez-Goyne Family Trust and others v. Republic of Nicaragua)
- President of the Annulment Committee of an ICSID award issued against Venezuela (ICSID Case No. ARB/13/11 – Annulment Proceeding, Valores Mundiales, S.L. and Consorcio Andino S.L. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an UNCITRAL arbitration between a U.S. investor and a country of the former Soviet Union (settled)
- Arbitrator appointed by the investor in an UNCITRAL arbitration between a former subsidiary of Yukos and Russia
- Arbitrator appointed by the investors in an ICSID arbitration initiated against Argentina (ICSID Case No. ARB/19/11, Nationale-Nederlanden Holdinvest B.V. and others v. Argentine Republic)
Commercial arbitrations
- President of the arbitral tribunal in a ICC arbitration between an international mining group and a Latin American State relating to the tax treatment of a mining project
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration relating to a project for the construction of a waste-to-energy plant between a European company and a Middle Eastern State (approximate amount EUR 200 million)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration relating to an oil refinery joint venture in Costa Rica (approximate amount USD 115 million)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration relating to a trans-European pipeline (approximate amount EUR 250 million)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration relating to an agency agreement for the supply of military aircraft to a Middle Eastern country (approximate amount EUR 100 million)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration between US investors and the national electricity company of West African country relating to a project for the improvement of the electricity sector (approximate amount USD 250 million)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration relating to the earn-out under a Share Purchase Agreement between two European companies
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration relating to a highway concession in Paraguay
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration relating to a refinery in Peru (approximate amount USD 250 million)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration relating to an oilfield in Albania (approximate amount USD 1 billion)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration relating to a mining joint venture in Bolivia (approximate amount USD 90 million)
- President of the arbitral tribunal under the rules of the Chambre Arbitrale Internationale de Paris in an arbitration relating to a highway concession in Peru (approximate amount EUR 50 million)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an arbitration administered by the Corte de Arbitraje de Madrid in a dispute between highway concessionaries in a European country (approximate value EUR 200 million; settled)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an UNCITRAL arbitration arising from an intra-European electricity supply contract
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an UNCITRAL arbitration arising from a refinery project in Ecuador
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration relating to a share purchase agreement between a French and a Luxembourg companies (approximate amount USD 80 million)
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an arbitration under the rules of the Danish Institute of Arbitration relating to the sale of marine engines
- President of the arbitral tribunal in a LCIA arbitration between a European State and the developer and concessionaire of major international airport (approximate amount EUR 27 million)
- President of the tribunal in three parallel LCIA arbitrations concerning the validity and enforceability of a third-party funding agreement for an ICSID arbitration
- President of the tribunal in an ICC arbitration between a European manufacturer of railway rolling stock and an agent in a country of the far East
- President in a Cairo Regional Centre arbitration arising out of a crude oil supply agreement between a Cayman Islands company and a Swiss company (approximate value USD 140 million)
- President in an ICC arbitration relating to a contract for the supply of copper wire rod between a Greek seller and an Algerian buyer
- President in a Milan Chamber arbitration arising from claims of breaches of non-compete obligations and unfair competition between crane manufacturers
- President in a Milan Chamber arbitration relating to the termination of an agreement between freight handlers
- President of the arbitral tribunal in an ICC arbitration arising from the termination of a commercial relationship for the distribution of medical equipment in a North African country
- President of a Swiss Chambers arbitration between a bank and several providers of monitoring, inspection, collateral management and supervision services
- President of a Danish Institute of Arbitration arbitration between a European insurance company and a Latin-American distributor
- President of an ICC arbitration between a manufacturer of airport handling equipment and an agent in a Middle Eastern country
- President of an ICC arbitration relating to a sale and purchase agreement of a company operating in the private security sector (settled)
- Emergency arbitrator in an ICC arbitration concerning a dispute between shareholders of a concessionaire in the gambling sector in a West European country
- Sole arbitrator in an Stockholm Chamber arbitration relating to a distribution agreement of natural food products
- Sole Arbitrator in an ICC arbitration concerning a dispute arising from an alleged breach of a commercial agent agreement for the distribution of pharmaceutical products in a North African country
- Sole arbitrator in a Swiss Chambers arbitration between an international law firm and a client relating to the payment of a success fee in respect of representation in an international arbitration
- Co-arbitrator on five-member panel appointed by the ICC in a dispute between shareholders of a telecommunications company in Angola (claim USD 4 billion)
- Co-arbitrator appointed by the ICC in an arbitration relating to the supply of natural gas between Argentina and Chile (approximate amount USD 200 million)
- Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration between an electric power company and a state entity and a Latin American State relating to the calculation of energy tariffs
- Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration between a manufacturer of homeopathic products and a distributor
- Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration over a dispute between the members of a consortium engaged in works on the Panama Canal (settled)
- Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration in a dispute between two major manufactures of aircraft components
- Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration relating to a gas price dispute
- Co-arbitrator in a Milan Chamber arbitration relating a dispute between shareholders of a waste recycling company
- Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration relating to a dispute between and Italian subcontractor and a Russian contractor
- Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration relating to a dispute between a North African oil company and a consortium of French companies for the provision of security technology for a pipeline
- Co-arbitrator in a Milan Chamber arbitration relating a dispute between a fashion company and a distributor in a North-European country
- Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration relating to a consultancy agreement for oil exploration and production in a North African country
- Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration relating to a sale and purchase agreement for the shares of a company operating in the railway sector
- Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration relating to a long-term contract for the use of telecommunications infrastructure in Italy
- Co-arbitrator in a LCIA arbitration relating to a dispute between partners of a wind farm
- Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration relating to a dispute between a major airline and a supplier of aircraft equipment
- Co-arbitrator in a Milan Chamber arbitration between shareholders relating to the valuation of a company
- Co-arbitrator in a Milan Chamber arbitration between an Italian publisher and a German provider of editorial content
- Co-arbitrator in a Milan Chamber arbitration relating to the termination of an agreement between a fashion company and a designer
COUNSEL
- Defending a leading German multinational group against a multibillion Euro claim in ICC proceedings brought by a European State in the defense sector
- Representing two leading Italian construction companies in a Panama-seated ICC arbitration brought by a Latin American company in a dispute relating to a hydroelectric project (amount in dispute EUR 70 million)
- Representing ten photovoltaic investors of different nationalities in six UNCITRAL arbitrations against the Czech Republic brought under the ECT and various intra-EU BITs (overall amount in dispute EUR 100 million). In the largest of these proceedings (which are still ongoing) the investors prevailed on the merits
- Representing a railway contractor in a Paris-seated ICC arbitration relating to a FIDIC dispute against two East European public entities (amount in dispute approximately EUR 25 million)
- Representing an Argentine company in a Buenos Aires-seated ICC arbitration relating to the supply of machinery (amount in dispute EUR 12 million)
- Successfully defending four European energy companies in ICC proceedings in a EUR 14 million post-M&A dispute with a U.S. multinational group
- Successfully representing a joint venture of Italian companies in an Addis Ababa-seated European Development Fund arbitration against the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Republic of Djibouti concerning a project for the rehabilitation of a railway line (amount in dispute approximately EUR 100 million)
- Representing a joint venture between two Italian companies and a French company in an Addis Ababa-seated European Development Fund arbitration against the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia concerning a project for the construction of a water network (amount in dispute approximately EUR 30 million)
- Representing an Italian construction company in a European Development Fund arbitration against a Haitian state entity relating to a road rehabilitation project, which ended in a settlement (amount in dispute EUR 8 million)
- Successfully representing the investors in proceedings before the Swiss Federal Tribunal for the set-aside of an award we obtained in investor-State proceedings against the Czech Republic
- Assisting an Italian joint venture before Ethiopian courts in proceedings for the set-aside of an award we obtained in a European Development Fund arbitration against the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Republic of Djibouti
- Representing an Italian defense manufacturer in an ICC arbitration with a foreign company relating to a project for the development of advanced armament system
- Representing a utility in proceedings now before the Italian Supreme Court in a follow-on antitrust damages suit arising from a commitments decision of the Italian competition authority
- Representing a manufacturer of telecommunications infrastructure equipment in an ad hoc arbitration relating to a dispute with an Italian mobile telecoms operator
- Representing the seller in an ICC arbitration relating to an earn-out clause in a post-M&A dispute
- Representing a Spanish agent in a dispute with a manufacturer of railroad rolling stock in an ICC arbitration
- Representing Italian bondholders in two ICSID arbitrations against the Argentine Republic arising from the State’s default (ICSID Case No. ARB/08/9, Ambiente Ufficio S.p.A. and others v. Argentine Republic and ICSID Case No. ARB/07/8, Giovanni Alemanni and others v. Argentine Republic)
- Representing Saipem S.p.A. in an ICSID arbitration relating to the unlawful interference with an ICC arbitration by the state courts of the seat of arbitration (ICSID Case No. ARB/05/07, Saipem S.p.A. v. The People’s Republic of Bangladesh)
- Representing leading dredging companies in an ICSID arbitration against Egypt (ICSID Case No. ARB/04/13, Jan de Nul N.V. and Dredging International N.V. v. Arab Republic of Egypt)
- Representing an Italian investor in an ICSID arbitration relating to the expropriation of a pipe plant in Georgia (ICSID Case No. ARB/05/23, Ares International S.r.l. and Metalgeo S.r.l. v. Georgia)
- Representing two Italian construction companies in an ICSID arbitration relating to a project for the construction of a dam (ICSID Case No. ARB/05/3, L.E.S.I. S.p.A. and ASTALDI S.p.A. v. République Algérienne Démocratique et Populaire)
