Italian arbitration in 2022
2022 has been an exciting year for Italian arbitration practitioners. First, in 2022 was enacted the reform of Italian arbitration law, which will enter…
Articles & Analysis
In-depth analysis, commentary and insights on Italian arbitration law from legal professionals and academics.
113 articles by 15 authors · 3 published this year
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Service of the award
The Milan Court of Appeal, with the ruling hereby commented (No. 3466 of November 4th 2022, Italian text available here), decide a challenge of…
Challenge to the shareholders’ meeting resolution and arbitrability
The Court of Milan reaffirms, in a recent decision (No. 8411 of 26 October 2022, Italian text available here), the broad applicability of the…
Sanctions and arbitrability
The sanctions adopted against certain Russian entities and individuals after the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation might raise an issue of arbitrability…
The Italian-Turkish BIT
Bilateral investment treaties (BIT) are international agreements providing the terms, conditions and protections for private investment by individuals and entities of a contracting State…
A Case Study on the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Turkey: Document production v. Confidentiality
Turkey has taken significant steps in becoming an arbitration-friendly jurisdiction over the past decade. Nevertheless, we observe that the foreign arbitral award enforcement proceedings…
Parallel paths
As far as the relationship between arbitration and Court proceedings is concerned, Italian law applies the s.c. parallel paths doctrine. This doctrine is laid…
Court’s costs and fees
The Court of Appeal of Milan and the Court of first instance of Milan recently issued two decisions on the issue of Court’s and…
Arbitration and payment order
A recent decision issued by the Court of first instance of Vicenza (Court of first instance of Vicenza, decision No. 1102 of 27 June…
Default arbitration proceedings
Default arbitration proceedings, or – with a more accurate wording – arbitration proceedings in which a situation occurs corresponding to the situation giving rise…
Parallel proceedings
A recent decision issued by the Court of Appeal of Milan (No. 1946 of 23 June 2021, Italian text available here) deals with a…
Mind the steps! Multi-tiered arbitration clauses
A multi-tiered arbitration resolution clause is, in its simplest form, the methodology agreed by the parties that has “multi-tiers” before resorting to the final…