Andrea Giardini joined the Bologna office of Zunarelli – Studio Legale Associato in 2002 and became a partner in 2011.
He mainly works in the field of commercial law, with particular focus on maritime law, transport law and international trade law, as well as in the field of administrative law, infrastructure and public contracts, and real estate law, providing advice and assistance in litigation and arbitrations.
From 2014 to 2020, he served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/2001 for a leading company operating in the field of maritime and coastal works.
He is a legal expert regularly invited to the meetings of the Superior Council of Public Works (Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport), where he has taken part since 2011 in the activities of the Section on ports and maritime works, and since 2013 in the work of the General Assembly.
He graduated in Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna in 2002 with a thesis in Navigation Law entitled “Il regime giuridico dei servizi portuali”.
In 2006, he became a PhD in European Transport Law.
He attended a summer program at the London School of Economics focused on International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration.
He has been a member of the Bologna Bar Association since 2006.
Admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) in 2016 after passing the examination at the Scuola Superiore dell’Avvocatura.
He regularly delivers seminars and speaks at conferences.
RECENT MENTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
– Legal 500 EMEA 2025: mentioned as Recommended Lawyer
– Legal 500 EMEA 2024 mentioned as Recommended Lawyer
Publications
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 (edited by), Il diritto del mercato del trasporto, CEDAM, Padova, 2008.
– Il mondo dei trasporti dalla Safety alla Security”, in 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, in Nomos e Khaos. Rapporto Nomisma 2005 sulle prospettive economico – strategiche (con G. Tamburini), edited by Osservatorio Scenari strategici e di sicurezza di Nomisma, 2006, Agra editrice S.r.l., Roma.
– La rete infrastrutturale dopo le Torri Gemelle, in Nomos e Khaos. Rapporto Nomisma 2004 sulle prospettive economico – strategiche (con G. Tamburini), edited by 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, in La riforma del trasporto pubblico locale, edited by Alessio Claroni, Bonomo editrice, Bologna, 2004.
