Biography: Arbitration

Teresa Giovannini is a founding partner of LALIVE. She has been involved in more than 140 international arbitration proceedings as council and arbitrator, mainly sole arbitrator and chairperson, under the rules of the AAA/ICDR, CARICI, ICC, ICDR, ICHEIC, ICSID, LCIA, Milan and Venice Chambers of Commerce, SCC, IATA, Swiss Rules and ad hoc, including UNCITRAL. Her main areas of practice include industrial engineering, infrastructure projects, aviation, transfer of technology, construction of turnkey factories, pharmaceuticals, luxury goods and art disputes, as well as disputes arising out of procurement contracts, licence and agency agreements, joint-venture and shareholder agreements. She is registered with the following panels of arbitrators: AAA/ICDR, CCIG; CCIZ; CIArb; CIETAC; Cairo Regional Centre for International Arbitration (CRCIA); DIAC; ICC; ICHEIC; and LCIA.

Ms Giovannini holds key positions in a number of leading international law and arbitration bodies. She has been a member and vice president of the London Court of International Arbitration - LCIA (2006-2011) and is currently a member of the council of the ICC Institute of World business Law, the International Law Association Committee on Arbitration (Swiss member), the board of directors of the AAA, the advisory board of the Transnational Arbitration Association (ITA) and the Club of Arbitrators of the Milan Chamber of National and International Arbitration. Ms Giovannini is also a frequent speaker at international conferences on international arbitration (IBA, ICCA, ITA, LCIA, CIArb), as well as the author of many publications in the field of international law and arbitration. She is fluent in French, English and Italian and has a good knowledge of German.