Born in Rome on 21 May 1940.
Degree in Law at “Sapienza” University of Rome (1962).
Full Professor of Private Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law of “Sapienza” University.
Professor of Commercial Law at the “School for Legal Professions” at the Faculty of Law of “Sapienza” University.
Visiting Fellow at the “Centre for the Advanced Study of European and Comparative Law” (Oxford).
Visiting Professor at the Universities of Stanford (California), Temple (Philadelphia), Paris-Panthéon, Sorbonne, Paris-Dauphine, Aix-en-Provence, Louvain-la-Neuve, São Paulo.
Member of the “Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé”; of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association for Arbitration; of the “Institut Français de l’Arbitrage”; of the “London Court for International Arbitration”; of the “American Trial Lawyers Association”.
Author of two books (Gli statuti delle società per azioni, Milan 1974; Le associazioni temporanee di imprese, Milan 1981) and of numerous essays, articles, encyclopedia entries and notes on Italian, European and extra-European Commercial Law and Comparative Private Law.
Editor of the following volumes: Il diritto d’autore alla luce delle nuove tecnologie, Naples 1994; Saggi di diritto commerciale europeo, Naples 1995; Codice commentato delle nuove società, Milan 2004; Il contenzioso economico in Italia e in Europa, Naples 2009; La Società per azioni europea, Turin 2010 (forthcoming).
Member of the Ministerial Committee for the reformation of corporations (2001-2002).
Member of the advisory board of the CONSOB from 1986 to 1994. Member of the Board of Directors of ISVAP from 1989 to 1997. President of Sanpaolo VITA s.p.a. from 1999 to 2004.
Member of the Bar of Rome from 1964. Foreign lawyer of the Law Society (U.K.) and member of the professional society “Clausen Miller Europe”.
Lawyer and Judge in national and international arbitrations.
Areas of practice: contracts, bankruptcy and corporate law.
Languages: French, English, German and Portuguese.