Massimo Benedettelli has been a partner at ArbLit since 2014 and is a full professor of international law at the University of Bari Aldo Moro.
He has been a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Court of Arbitration since July 2018. Until that month, Massimo led the Italian delegation to the ICC Commission of Arbitration. He is also a member of the Arbitration Council of ACIAM, Atlanta, Georgia.
Massimo obtained an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD from the European University Institute. He started his professional practice in 1986 in the legal department of ENI. In 1990, Massimo joined Chiomenti Studio Legale, where he was a partner from 1996. He left in November 2001 to join Freshfields.
Massimo is one of Italy’s main arbitration specialists. He has acted as counsel or sat as chair, sole or co-arbitrator in several international and domestic arbitrations.
Massimo is the author of one book and of various articles published in the most prestigious Italian and international law reviews and co-editor of an authoritative commentary on arbitration law and practice in Italy. Massimo delivered a course at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2022.
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