Roberto Oliva
Roberto is a partner of the Dispute Resolution Department of Pavia e Ansaldo, a leading independent Italian law firm, which has been operating in Italy and abroad for more than 60 years.
He is enrolled with the Milan Bar and admitted to practice before Italian senior Courts.
Roberto assists Italian and foreign clients in complex disputes before Italian State Courts and arbitral tribunals seated in Italy and overseas. Moreover, he is routinely appointed as an arbitrator by the parties, arbitral institutions, or appointing authorities.
Roberto is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), “Associazione Italiana dell’Arbitrato (AIA)”, ArbIT – Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR, and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).
He also serves as the Honorary Secretary of the CIArb European Branch Committee, as a co-chair of ArbIT, and as the General Editor of the e-journal Arbitration in Italy.
When can the adversarial principle be considered violated?
Interim relief jurisdiction
Interim attachment pending foreign arbitral award recognition
Still on parallel paths
Interim measures and arbitration in Italy after the 2022 reform: initial considerations in light of Article 818 of the Italian Code of Civil Procedure
Breach to the arbitral agreement
Some thoughts on the reform of Italian arbitration law
Arbitration law reform and new CAM rules
Italian arbitration in 2022
Sanctions and arbitrability
The Italian-Turkish BIT
Parallel paths
Court’s costs and fees
Arbitration and payment order
Default arbitration proceedings
Parallel proceedings
Multiparty arbitration
Extended effects or separability doctrine?
Public policy
Arbitration in Italy’s 2020
Corporate arbitration
Separability presumption
A proposal for Italian arbitration
A never signed arbitration clause
International corporate arbitration
CAM simplified arbitration
Arbitration in the time of CoViD-19
Arbitration and tort claims
Liquidated damages, termination and arbitration
Pre-contractual liability and arbitration
Arbitration in a nutshell
Counterclaims and objection to Court’s jurisdiction
Joinder and arbitration
“Irrituale” arbitration in corporate matters
Separability of the arbitration clause
Stare decisis?
Bankruptcy receiver’s claims
Objection to State Court’s jurisdiction
Iura novit Arbiter
Arbitration and non-contractual claims
Contractual restitutions and arbitration
Arbitration clause and general terms and conditions
Challenges to awards
General terms and conditions
Distinguishing Achmea
Review on the merits
Dispute Review Board in Italian Public Procurement
Assignment of credit and arbitration clause
Corporate arbitration: the doctrine is (finally) right, its application is wrong
Wording of the arbitration clause and setting aside of the award
Pledge for greener arbitrations
New arbitration rules of Milan Chamber of Arbitration
Scope of corporate arbitration clauses
Prague Rules: minimal notes from an Italian perspective
Corporate arbitration and insolvency proceedings
Setting aside of arbitral awards
Arbitration and order for payment
Setting aside of a partial award
Arbitration and tort claims
Arbitration and interim relief
Arbitrability of corporate disputes
Corporate disputes
Making of the award
Corporate arbitration and interim measures
Assignment of the arbitration agreement
Once again, on arbitration and statute of limitations
Corporate arbitration and transfer of shares
Review on the merits
The return of the twin-track approach
The objection of arbitration
Corporate arbitration: and yet it moves!
Once again, on the relationship between arbitral and judicial proceedings
Arbitration and directors’ remuneration
Relationship between arbitration and judicial proceedings
Arbitrability of disputes
Arbitrability of corporate disputes
Corporate arbitration and interim measures
Once again, on the review on the merits
Review of an award on the merits
Arbitration and embargo
Optional arbitration
Corporate arbitration: the twin-track approach is wrong
Grounds for setting aside
Preliminary agreement and arbitration clause
Arbitration clause and payment order
The case of the additional preposition
Arbitration and statute of limitations
Waiver of the right to arbitrate
Once again, on arbitration and insolvency
Construction of the arbitration clause contained in the Articles of association
Arbitration and shareholders’ loan
Once again, on arbitration and companies financial statements
Arbitrators’ fees
Challenge of shareholders’ resolutions
CAM’s guidelines for Tribunal-appointed experts
Arbitration and companies financial statements
Construction of arbitration clause
International Court of Arbitration
Arbitration in Italy
Arbitration and insolvency
About Roberto Oliva
Roberto is a partner of the Dispute Resolution Department of Pavia e Ansaldo, a leading independent Italian law firm, which has been operating in Italy and abroad for more than 60 years.
He is enrolled with the Milan Bar and admitted to practice before Italian senior Courts.
Roberto assists Italian and foreign clients in complex disputes before Italian State Courts and arbitral tribunals seated in Italy and overseas. Moreover, he is routinely appointed as an arbitrator by the parties, arbitral institutions, or appointing authorities.
Roberto is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), “Associazione Italiana dell’Arbitrato (AIA)”, ArbIT – Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR, and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).
He also serves as the Honorary Secretary of the CIArb European Branch Committee, as a co-chair of ArbIT, and as the General Editor of the e-journal Arbitration in Italy.