Michele Carpagnano is a partner in Dentons’ Rome office and the head of the Italian Competition & Antitrust practice. Professor of EU Competition Law at University of Trento, he is the founder and co-director of the Osservatorio Antitrust , an independent research center based at Trento University. Michele provides national and multinational companies with legal advice and judicial assistance in all aspects of Italian and EU Competition Law, Consumer Law, Merger Control, State Aid Law, antitrust issues related to tender procedures (bid rigging) and markets regulations. He represents national and multinational companies as well as public institutions in administrative proceedings before the Italian Competition Authority and Administrative Courts.
He also represents clients in Competition / Consumer laws litigation – both single and class actions claims – before Italian Courts. He advises local, national and EU Institutions on legislative / regulatory proposals related to Competition and Consumer laws.

Giovanni Cerutti is SVP and Regional General Counsel of NTT DATA Emea Ltd. (UK) since 2012, when he set up the Legal & Compliance organization across the Region. He has also been active in M&A transactions ever since.
He is currently Lead DPO (CIPP/E certified), with responsibility over 12 operational entities in Europe, Middle East and Far East. After graduation and legal practice, he earned a Master’s Degree as Fulbright Scholar at Urbana-Champaign Law School (USA). He has gained more than 35-year professional experience as In-House Lawyer in International Groups (ENI, Honeywell, Bull, Wang, Getronics, Value Team, Value Partners, NTT DATA). He is a “Dirigente” since 1993. He is pro-bono Board member of ECLA – “European Company Lawyers Association”, non-profit Association of over 20 National Chapters. Co-author of the White Book “Company Lawyers: independent by design” (Lexis Nexis) and of an article re “M&A-related Escrow Agrts and other Collaterals”, in book published by Giuffrè for AIGI Italy.

Since 2003 with the Commercial Direction of Tecnimont S.p.A. and the Legal and Contracts Direction of Maire Tecnimont Group as in-house lawyer and manager of contracts negotiation in the business of Petrochemicals, Oil & Gas, Power and Fertilizer industrial plants, Infrastructures and Renewables Energy projects, green acceleration and technologies for circular economy. Giving support in international tendering process and award of EPC contracts for turnkey projects, subcontracts, relevant joint venture and consortium and start-up of project companies in various jurisdictions. Wide international experience accrued in Middle East, Gulf Countries, Asia (from India to all far East), Africa, South America, Russian Federation, USA and EU, approaching relevant legal systems, environment and risks & opportunities management. Since 2014 “Certified Project Management Associate” IPMA (International Project Management Academy). For more than 10 years before being in-house, working as qualified lawyer – Senior Associate with international law firms in construction litigation, corporate restructuring and M&A. Graduated in Law at the University of Bologna with dissertation on Arbitration in Public Contracts. Lecturer and teacher at post graduate courses and masters of, among others, LUISS (Libera Università Guido Carli), ANIMP and Euroconference. Member of AIGI (Associazione Italiana Giuristi d’Impresa), former responsible of Lombardia and Liguria Area (2007-2010) and Board member (2010-2016), currently member of Collegio dei Probiviri. Co-founder of http://www.giuristitelematici.com association for the study, exchange and updating on legal matters of information technology. Author and co-author of several articles and books on international contracts, project financing, joint venture, public contracts. The last one published in 2020 is: “The UNIDROIT Principles in EPC Contracts of industrial process plants: Contractor’s experience” in the volume “The multiple uses of International Commercial Contracts: theory and practice” within “Contratti & Commercio Internazionale”, editor Giuffrè.

Pietro Galizzi is the Head of Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Affairs at Eni Gas e Luce S.p.A., one of the largest Italian companies and a main player in the oil & gas industry. Before being Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at Eni Gas e Luce S.p.A., Pietro Galizzi was Eni S.p.A.’s Retail Market Gas & Power Legal Assistance Senior Vice President. Before joining Eni, from 2002 to 2013, Pietro was Saipem’s General Counsel. In these roles, he has covered a wide cross section of legal activity, including compliance, litigation/arbitration, contract negotiation, contract administration and the full range of corporate legal activities. He has been a member of the UNIDROIT Working Group on International Long-Term Contracts, participated in the ICC Commission on Arbitration, Working Group on the Role of In-house Counsel in Dispute Resolution and in the European Advisory Board of the CPR. Pietro regularly lectures on International Business Law at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), LUISS Guido Carli (Rome, Italy) and Quest Master Class (Dubai, UAE).

Teresa Giovannini is a founding partner of LALIVE (1994) and specialises in international arbitration. She has acted as counsel or arbitrator in more than 200 international arbitrations, including setting aside proceedings before the Swiss Supreme Court, either ad hoc (e.g. under UNCITRAL Rules) or administered by institutions such as the AAA/ICDR, CAM, ICC, ICSID, LCIA and SCC. Ms Giovannini is the Swiss member of the ICC Court of Arbitration and member of the Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. She was and/or currently is a member and vice-president of the LCIA Court (2006 – 2011) and of the Arbitral Council of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration (CAM) (1997 – 2005) the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the Executive Council of the CPR European Advisory Board (2013 – 2019) and Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, the Club of Arbitrators the Milan Chamber of National and International Arbitration, the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA). Ms Giovannini is a frequent speaker and lecturer on international arbitration (including at Columbia Law School; the Fordham University School of Law and Harvard Law School as well as the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, the International Chamber of Commerce; the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIarb); the University of Oxford, Queen’s College; IBA; ITA; etc.) She has been ranked for many years as a leading arbitration practitioner by Chambers Europe and Chambers Global for Dispute resolution – Arbitrators for Switzerland and, and as a Thought Leader in Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal. She was listed among the Best Prepared/Most Responsive Arbitrators by Global Arbitration Review (GAR). Ms Giovannini is fluent in French, English, Italian and has a good command of German.

Mr. Pagnacco is an experienced in-house legal counsel, at Maire Tecnimont Group, specialized in international dispute resolution, construction law, contract and claim management. Mr. Pagnacco has worked for major corporations and consulting firms like Siemens and Ernst & Young in Engineering & Construction, Oil, Gas, Infrastructures and Power projects in the Americas and Europe. In recent years, Mr. Pagnacco has managed several high key arbitration cases, in Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and India. Mr Pagnacco obtained a Law Degree at the Università Cattolica of Milan and an LLM degree in Construction Law and International Arbitration at Gordon University, Aberdeen. He is a member of the Italian Chapter of CIArb to which he belongs in quality of Fellow and a member of ArbIt. He has been lecturing for several ICC, IBA, ARBIT, AIA, CAM, UNIDROIT and CEA conferences in Italy and around the world.

Adriano Peloso is Head of Legal Affairs of Dedalus Italia S.p.A., in charge for all legal affairs, both corporate and clients related, creating a common legal approach to commercial customer contracts and the provision of the legal services to the Company. He has the responsability for legal support in national tendering process and award of contracts for IT Healthcare Integrated Projects, subcontracts, relevant joint venture and consortium in the IT Healthcare business. Before being Head of Legal Affairs at Dedalus Italia S.p.A., since 2013 he was an In House Lawyer and Manager of the contract management assistance at Saipem S.p.A., a large Multinational Company in the business of Petrochemicals, Oil & Gas, Power and Fertilizer industrial plants, Infrastructures and Renewables Energy projects. For more than 3 years before being in-house, he has worked as qualified lawyer with international law firms in construction litigation, public contracts, corporate restructuring and M&A.
Graduated in Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca. After the graduation he earned a PhD at the University of Milano-Bicocca with dissertation on European Regulation Market and Public Contracts. Lecturer and teacher at post graduate courses and masters of, among others, Il Sole 24 Ore Business School, ANIMP and University of Milano-Bicocca. Member of AIGI (Associazione Italiana Giuristi d’Impresa) and currently member of Board of Statutory Auditors Board of AIGI. Author of several articles on international contracts, project financing, joint venture, public contracts on Law Reviews and legal editor for newspaper as Il Sole 24 Ore and Wolter Kluwer Group.