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Renato’s practice covers all aspects of both competition law and international arbitration.
As a competition lawyer, Renato benefits from having worked for eight years at the UK competition authority where he advised on investigations, appeals, mergers and policy work across all industry sectors. In private practice, Renato acted as counsel before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union and advised on damages claims, including on one of the Trucks cases in the Netherlands. He routinely advises on class actions and litigation strategy.
Renato’s experience includes acting on multi-billion mergers, investigations by competition authorities on cartels and abuses of dominant position and damages claims. He has advised clients in the EU, the UK, Italy and other jurisdictions on information exchanges, tying and bundling, refusal to supply, interconnection and interoperability issues, abuse of dominance in the digital economy and in multi-sided markets, financial services and the intersection of IP law and competition. He has also acted as counsel and arbitrator on arbitrations where significant competition and regulatory issues arose. Because of this unique expertise, he was invited to serve on the ICC Task Force on Arbitrating Competition Law Issues.
He has been a non-governmental adviser to the ICN for 10 years and has published three books on competition procedure and abuse of dominance. He took honorary silk in 2025 for his major contribution to English law, particularly by developing policies on collective actions and abuse of dominance, influencing the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and the 2008 European Commission Guidance on Article 102. He is professor at King’s College London where he teaches competition enforcement and procedure and competition law in the digital economy at postgraduate level.
As an arbitration lawyer, Renato has a substantial experience as counsel in international arbitration in high-value cases of up to billions of USD across the whole spectrum of commercial disputes and under most internationally used arbitration rules (ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIAC, CAM, UNCITRAL) and in purely ad hoc arbitrations. He has a wide industry knowledge, including foreign investments, construction and engineering, steel and heavy industries, oil and gas, infrastructure, energy, IT and digital, IP, pharmaceuticals, transport, commodities, consumer goods and post-MA arbitrations. He is a specialist in ICSID arbitration and ISDS more generally and has published widely on the subject. As a dually qualified English barrister and Italian advocate, he understands the different approaches of common law and civil law and is able to resolve effectively and pragmatically complex substantive and procedural problems. Aware of the multi-cultural dimension of many international disputes, he has worked across Europe, Africa, Asia, America and Australia. Because of his qualification as an Italian lawyer and his understanding of civil law systems, Renato has also worked in many arbitrations where the contract was governed by civil law, particularly in the Middle East and Gulf regions, in Latin America and in continental Europe. As counsel, Renato has developed a particular expertise in construction law and in the cross-examination of technical, delay and quantum experts. He has worked on cases involving bespoke contracts as well as most of the FIDIC, NEC and JCT forms and many others. He is the Director of the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at King’s College London.
As arbitrator, Renato has worked as chair/president, wing member/party-appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator and emergency arbitrator under most internationally used rules in all five continents in cases governed by the laws of common law and civil law jurisdictions as well as public international law, lex mercatoria, general principles of law and other non-state sources. He is admitted to the following panels and lists of arbitrators: SIAC, DIAC, SCCA, Polish Chamber of Commerce, Lewiatan Court of Arbitration (Poland), Serbian Construction Dispute Resolution Centre and HKIAC. He is also admitted to the HKIAC panel of adjudicators. He is a member of the ICC Arbitration and ADR Commission, Italy, of the ICC Task Force on Dealing with Corruption Issues in International Arbitration, of the Board of the International Construction Law Association and of Africa Construction Law.
Acted as counsel in international arbitration cases relating to construction, engineering, oil and gas, energy, intellectual property, M&A, joint ventures, commercial contracts and foreign investments:
Arbitrated cases in international arbitration with seats in all five continents, including in particular London, Geneva, Paris, Milan, Malta, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore as chair, sole arbitrator, party-nominated arbitrator and emergency arbitrator, including the following:
Renato is Professor at King’s College London and Director of the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Turin, the University of Zurich, and FGV of São Paulo, Brazil and a non-governmental adviser to the International Competition Network (ICN).
He holds two doctorates: one in competition law from the University of London and one on international arbitration from the University of Milan (Università Statale di Milano).
He also works as an expert and has experience in doing so in the High Court.
Renato works in English and Italian. He is a British and Italian national.
2026 – present Barrister, Monckton Chambers
2021 – present Director, Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution, King’s College London
2013 – present Professor of Law | Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London
2011 – 2025 Partner | LMS Legal LLP, London, LMS Milan
2012 – 2013 Professor of Law | Law School, University of Southampton
2006 – 2011 Reader in Law | Law School, University of Southampton
2010 – 2011 Of counsel | Bonelli Erede, London
2003 – 2010 Deputy Director/Senior Legal Adviser | Office of Fair Trading, London
2001 – 2003 Senior Research Fellow |BIICL
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Reports, articles and book chapters