Michele is specialized in maritime and international law and acquired vast experience as legal counsel in the matter of environmental damages, contractual disputes, shipping and litigation.

He is often engaged in cargo claims and ships’ arrest as counsel for important Italian and international companies connected to the shipping world.

Michele is also involved in corporate transaction, sales contracts, sales of shares and transfer of business.

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Michele deals also with big maritime casualties and in the past assisted owners and P&I Club of M/t “Haven” in one of the most complex and dramatic cases in the Italian seawaters.

Michele is often appointed as Arbitrator in connection with maritime disputes in Italy.

He also attends as speaker various seminars on maritime and international law, in Italy and abroad, like the one in Qingdao for the 4th Annual World Congress of Ocean – 2015 (WCO – 2015).

In 2014 Michele got a master in Milan on “sport law”.

In 2018 he joined the international legal network IR Global and attended the conferences organized by the network in London (2018), Rome (2019) and Amsterdam (2019).

He is admitted as counsel to the Supreme Court of Cassation.

Affiliations & Memberships

AIDIM – Associazione Italiana di Diritto Marittimo
THE PROPELLER CLUB – Port of Genoa
IR Global

Publications

Diritto Marittimo
Shipping & International Trade Law (edited by David Lukas, Hill Dickinson LLP)
Trade Winds (2019)

Education

Law degree, University of Genoa, 1978

Admission

Bar Association, 1980
Supreme Court of Cassation

Languages

English, French