Flavio specializes in international commercial and investor-State arbitration. He has been involved (as counsel, arbitrator, secretary or assistant to arbitral tribunals) in over 40 arbitrations subject to various rules (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, Swiss Rules, Milan Chamber, UNCITRAL), including high-profile matters in the energy sector involving state and state-owned entities. Flavio’s areas of expertise include conflict of laws and EU law.

Flavio’s recent experience as counsel includes representing foreign photovoltaic investors in UNCITRAL arbitrations against the Czech Republic brought under the ECT and various intra-EU BITs; a foreign private equity player in Milan Chamber arbitration on a company law dispute; an Italian energy company in a post M&A dispute submitted to ICC arbitration; an Italian oil & gas contractor in ICC arbitration; an Italian railway contractor in ICC arbitration arising from a FIDIC contract with a foreign state-owned entity; a Maltese company in ICC arbitration over the image rights of a famous football player; an Italian distributor of medical devices in ICC arbitrations against a Japanese manufacturer.

Flavio’s other recent experience includes acting as sole arbitrator in foreign-seated ICC arbitration regarding an IP dispute; acting as co-arbitrator in Milan Chamber arbitration arising from a distribution agreement; appearing before Dispute Adjudication Boards; advising foreign and Italian companies in disputes regarding international transport and international sale; working on expert opinions on various arbitration law issues (res judicata, confidentiality, interim measures and arbitrators’ disclosure and conflicts of interest).

Flavio acted as secretary to distinguished tribunals, including an ICC tribunal deciding a dispute arising from a project for the construction of a waste-to-energy plant between a European company and a Middle Eastern State; an ICC tribunal deciding a dispute relating to an oil refinery joint venture in Costa Rica; an ICC tribunal deciding a dispute between US investors and the national electricity company of West African country relating to a project for the improvement of the electricity sector.

Flavio holds a Ph.D. in international law from the Catholic University of Milan, with a thesis on the res judicata effects of foreign judgments and international arbitral awards. From 2013 to 2019 he assisted Professor Radicati di Brozolo with his courses of private international law and law of international arbitration. Flavio is a member of the board of editors of the Italian law review Diritto del Commercio Internazionale and author of various publications on arbitration.

Flavio is a member of the IBA Task Force on Res judicata in International Arbitration, a member of the YSIAC Council, a member of the Advisory Board of Arbit and a former member of the Executive Committee of AA40.

Flavio is recognized in Lexology (formerly Who’s Who Legal) and Chambers and Partners rankings.

Flavio graduated cum laude from the Catholic University of Milan. Before joining ArbLit in 2013 upon its foundation, Flavio was a trainee in the corporate and M&A practice group of Bonelli Erede. In 2014, he took part in the International Academy for Arbitration Law held in Paris where he was awarded the runner-up prize for the laureate of the Academy.