Michele Sabatini

Michele Sabatini
Contacts:
ArbLit - Radicati di Brozolo Sabatini Benedettelli
Via Alberto da Giussano n. 15
20145 - Milano
Phone: + 39 02 8425 4810
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.arblit.com
EDUCATION
• LL.M. (Tulane University Law School, 2006)
• International Legal Studies Certificate (American University Washington College of Law, 2005)
• Degree in Law (University of Rome "Sapienza", 2002)
ADMISSIONS
• Milan Bar
• New York State Bar
LANGUAGES
• Italian; English; French
PROFILE
Michele focuses on commercial and investment arbitration and international litigation. He regularly assists
and advises Italian and foreign clients in complex arbitrations on contracts involving private and public
parties and different sets of rules (ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, EDF).
Michele has acquired a specific experience in construction disputes and in FIDIC contracts where he
assists clients from the preparation of claims to the Engineer, to adjudication before DABs and arbitration.
As to investment treaty arbitration, Michele is currently co-representing with Luca foreign investors in
UNCITRAL proceedings on a renewable energy dispute and two groups of Italian bondholders in two ICSID
arbitrations against the Republic of Argentina.
He has also been appointed sole arbitrator by the Milan Arbitration Chamber and by the ICC in international
and domestic arbitrations.
Michele coordinated the Section on international arbitration of the main Italian commentary on arbitration,
the second edition of which is in preparation, and is on the board of editors of Diritto del Commercio
Internazionale, for which he
co-edits a biannual review of international arbitration cases.
From 2002 to 2007 he was a research assistant of Public International Law at the University of Viterbo and
in 2006 a research assistant at the Tulane University Law School.
PUBLICATIONS
• As of 2013 Michele co-authors together with Andrea Carlevaris (currently Secretary General of the ICC)
a review of Italian jurisprudence in the Cahiers de l'Arbitrage | The Paris Journal of International Arbitration.
• As of 2012 Michele is part of the board of editors of Diritto del commercio internazionale.
• As of 2012 he coordinates together with Professor Antonio Crivellaro a biannual review of international
arbitration cases ("Rassegna di giurisprudenza e prassi dell'arbitrato internazionale") published in the Italian
law review Diritto del Commercio Internazionale.
• In 2010 Michele coordinated the Part II, devoted to international arbitraiton, of the Commentario breve al
diritto dell'arbitrato interno e internazionale, Cedam, Padova, 2010, (co-edited by Luca Radicati di Brozolo,
Massimo Benedettelli and Claudio Consolo).
SPECIFIC PUBLICATIONS
• "L'assistenza legale e la procura ad litem nell'arbitrato interno internazionale" (translation: "legal
assistance and the mandate ad litem in international and domestic arbitration), in Diritto del commercio
internazionale, 2011, p. 1084.
• "Dallah: la Cour d'appel di Parigi si riappropria della sua toga" (translation; "Dallah: the Cour d'appel of
Paris regains possession of its gown) in Diritto del commercio internazionale, 2011, p. 1132.
• "Romania: validità di clausole arbitrali inserite in contratti d'appalto pubblico" (translation: "Romania:
validity of arbitration clauses in construction contracts with public entitites"), in Diritto del Commercio
Internazionale, 2011, p. 145.
• "Il Pakistan si oppone con successo all'esecuzione in Inghilterra di un lodo ICC reso nei suoi confronti a
Parigi" (translation "Pakistan successfully opposes to the enforcement in England of an ICC award
rendered in Paris"), in Diritto del commercio internazionale, 2011, p. 223.
• "L'obbligo di "disclosure" dell'arbitro: la corte d'appello di Parigi si schiera contro gli arbitri che fanno
parte dei grandi Studi associati" (tanslation: "arbitrator's duty of disclosure: the Paris Court of Appeal sides
against arbitrators who are members of big law firms"), in Diritto del commercio internazionale, 2009, p.
179.
• "Verso un assetto multilaterale delle regole sulla concorrenza: The Doha Development Agenda e la
creazione dell'ICN" (translation: "Towards a Multilateral Asset of Competition Rules: The Doha
Development Agenda and the Creation of the ICN") in Diritto del commercio internazionale, 2002, p. 951.