Members of Chambers are delighted to announce that Professor Renato Nazzini KC (Hon) has joined Monckton Chambers as of today, 23rd April 2026.
Renato joins Chambers after 26 years of practice as a solicitor and Italian advocate. Renato’s practice covers all aspects of both international arbitration and competition law.
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. 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, and consumer goods. 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 under most internationally used arbitration rules and in ad hoc arbitrations.
As a competition lawyer, Renato benefits from having worked for eight years at the Office of Fair Trading, which was at the time the UK competition authority, where he advised on investigations, appeals, mergers and policy work across all industry sectors. In private practice, Renato advised on multi-billion mergers, investigations by competition authorities on cartels and abuses of dominant position and damages claims. He acted as counsel in cases before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union in cartel and State Aid cases. He has advised clients in the EU, the UK, Italy and and other jurisdictions on information exchanges, joint ventures, complex distribution arrangements, and the intersection of IP law and competition. 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.
As arbitrator, Renato has worked as chair/president, wing member/party-appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator and emergency arbitrator under most internationally used rules (ICC, SIAC, DIAC, CAM, etc.). 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. 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.
In 2025, Renato was appointed King’s Counsel (Hon) for his major contribution to English law.
Renato is also a Professor at King’s College London, where he is the Director of the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution and teaches both international arbitration and competition law.
Tim Ward KC and Philip Moser KC, joint heads of Monckton Chambers, said: “We welcome Renato Nazzini KC (Hon) to Monckton Chambers, where his expertise both in arbitration and competition law will complement our existing commercial and competition law practices. We look forward to working with him as a colleague at Monckton.”
Renato says: “I am excited to take tenancy at Monckton Chambers and look forward to continuing my work in international arbitration and competition law as a barrister. Monckton is a perfect fit for my practice. I thank all members of Chambers who have helped me in my move to the Bar”
