Filippo has gained extensive experience in maritime, transport and insurance law.

He manages litigation before Italian and international courts and arbitration tribunals, and performs extrajudicial activity of consulting, drafting of contracts, mediation and settlement of disputes.

He assists leading shipowners companies, multinational transport companies and insurers in cases relating to sinking of vessels and yachts, salvage and general damage, fire and loss of valuable cargoes.

Filippo has devoted a significant part of its activity to assisting clients in customs disputes, relating to import duties, sanctions and contestation of violations also involving profiles of potential criminal liability of importers and customs operators.

Filippo has also provided legal assistance in many important and complex cases, including the Rapallo harbour disaster of 29.10.2018, dealing personally on behalf of various hull insurers with all the legal aspects of the yacht wrecks removals, drafting the relevant framework agreements and executory contracts and dealing with the various public authorities involved, as well as instituting the judicial assessment of the proceedings of the collapse of the harbour dam.

Filippo is author of several publications and attends as speaker at conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad on maritime, transport and customs law.

He has lectured in university courses, post-graduate courses and corporate courses.

Affiliations & Memberships

Propeller Club – Port of Genoa
ASLA - Associated Law Firms Association

Publications

Il contratto di trasporto marittimo di cose, in I Singoli contratti (Cedam 2010)

Education

Law Degree, University of Genoa, 1991

Admission

Bar Association, 1994
Supreme Court of Cassation, 2011

Languages

English