Alberto Piergrossi

town: Milan, IT

activity: Mediator - Arbitrator

can mediate in: Italian - English - French

J.D. (Juris Doctor, maxima cum laude) (Laurea in Giurisprudenza), State University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano), Italy (1963).

Admitted to the Milan Bar (1966). Admitted to the Italian Supreme Courts.

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. - Master of Laws (LL.M. 1967).

Stanford School of Law, Stanford, California, U.S.A. - Teaching and Research Assistant (1968).

Founder and Chairman of the law firm Piergrossi Studio Legale, founded on July 1st, 2009.

Former Chairman of the law firm Eversheds Piergrossi Bianchini, founded in 1975, with offices in Milan and Rome, and Italian member of Eversheds International, until June 30th, 2009.

Professional Mediator, qualified, Italy, May 2011.

He has participated to Quadra's Basic Training in Transformative Mediation with Joseph Folger and Carlo Mosca (Milan, October 2012).

Professor Emeritus of Civil Procedure, Law School, State University of Milan.

Formerly also Professor of Private and Procedural International Law, Law School, University of Siena (Italy).

Past President, Harvard Law School Association of Europe (2004-2007).

Author of various publications in Italian and English, among which the treatise “L’arbitrato commerciale negli Stati Uniti d’America e suoi rapporti con l’ordinamento italiano” (Commercial arbitration in the U.S.A. and its relationship with Italian arbitration), Milan, Giuffrè, 1974 and the Italian chapter in the book “EU Banking and Insurance Insolvency”, edited by Moss and Wessels, Oxford University Press, 2006 and “Luci e ombre della normativa in materia di class actions” (Italian legislation on class actions), in Iustitia, 2010, p. 393.

He specialises in civil and commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation, both domestic and international. He also specialises in intellectual property (both in contractual aspects and in litigation), in commercial contracts, in insolvency and restructuring, in corporate matters (inclusive of Mergers and Acquisitions and Joint Ventures) and in sports law.

He has often been appointed as arbitrator, also as sole arbitrator, in addition to serving as counsel, both in national and international arbitrations. He has acted as a Court expert on Italian law and civil procedure, including proceedings before the High Court in London, England.

He is a member of the Milan Bar, of the International Bar Association (IBA), of Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), of the International Trademark Association (INTA), to which he has also been appointed as a delegate and European subcommittee member, of the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA), of the International Insolvency Institute (III), of the Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage (ASA) and of the Chinese European Arbitration Centre (CEAC) Advisory Board.

Languages: Italian, English and French.