Avv. Andrea Giardini

– SENIOR PARTNER –

Andrea Giardini is a Senior Partner of the Firm and works at the Firm’s Bologna office.

Andrea mainly deals with commercial law, with particular attention to the maritime, transports and international trade sectors, and administrative law, with particular consideration for the infrastructure and public procurement law, having gained key experience as legal expert invited to the High Council of Public Works, where from 2011 he participates in the activity of the Section dealing with ports and maritime works and from 2013 in the sessions of the General Assembly.

He was appointed in 2014 as President of the independent supervisory body (organismo di vigilanza), settled pursuant to Lgs. Decree no. 231/2001, of a leading company operating in the market of maritime structures and coastal works.

He holds regularly seminars for companies and market players and has been a teacher of several training courses on road transport law on behalf of the Italian Central Committee of Road Haulage Registry

He obtained his PhD in European Transport Law in 2006 and is author for national and international law magazines.

As a lawyer, he spent a period studying international commercial litigation and arbitration at the London School of Economics.

Andrea is admitted to the Bologna Bar and qualified to represent Clients before the Italian Supreme Court as of April 2016, having passed the examination held by the Superior School of Advocacy.

Languages: Italian, English

– Prorogation of jurisdiction under Article 23(1)(a) Council Regulation (EC) 44/2001 in the Italian jurisdiction, in commento a Corte di Cassazione, Sezione Unite Civili, ordinanza 09/03/2012, n 3693, in The Journal of International Maritime Law, 2012, 18, JIML, n. 3, pp.188-190.

– E’ ammissibile la delibazione parziale di sentenza straniera limitata al solo capo che condanna al pagamento di una somma capitale pur se altro capo della medesima sentenza condanni il debitore al versamento di interessi usurari, nota a Corte d’Appello di Trieste, decreto 3.12.2009, in Diritto del Commercio Internazionale, n. 1/2011, pp.233-242.

– I porti ed i servizi portuali in S. Zunarelli (a cura di), Il diritto del mercato del trasporto, CEDAM, Padova, 2008.

– Il mondo dei trasporti dalla Safety alla Security nel volume Innovare Competere Produrre. Frammenti di 25 anni (e oltre) di economia reale nell’esperienza dei ricercatori di Nomisma, Agra Editrice S.r.l. 2006.

– Infrastrutture e sicurezza, nel volume Nomos e Khaos. Rapporto Nomisma 2005 sulle prospettive economico – strategiche (con G. Tamburini), a cura dell’Osservatorio Scenari strategici e di sicurezza di Nomisma, 2006, Agra editrice S.r.l., Roma.

– La rete infrastrutturale dopo le Torri Gemelle, nel volume Nomos e Khaos. Rapporto Nomisma 2004 sulle prospettive economico – strategiche (con G. Tamburini), a cura dell’Osservatorio Scenari strategici e di sicurezza di Nomisma, Edizioni Agra S.r.l., Roma, 2005.

– L’accordo di programma nella riforma del trasporto pubblico locale nel volume La riforma del trasporto pubblico locale, a cura di Alessio Claroni, Bonomo editrice, Bologna, 2004