Personal bio
Paolo Marzolini is a partner of Patocchi & Marzolini, the law firm established with Paolo Michele Patocchi on 1 January 2014. Paolo is acting as counsel representing clients and he is sitting as arbitrator in Switzerland and a number of other jurisdictions under various sets of arbitration rules (including, but not limited to, the ICC Rules, Swiss Rules, LCIA Rules, UNCITRAL Rules, DIAC Rules, ISTAC Rules, QICCA Rules and WIPO Rules). Paolo has been involved in over 60 arbitrations and has had practical experience in a number of systems of law such as Italian, Swiss, French, English, Spanish, U.S., German, Dutch, Bahamian, Libyan, Iranian, Qatari, Emirati, Egyptian, Chinese, South Korean, Japanese and Senegalese. Paolo has worked in the international dispute resolution departments of leading law firms in Geneva and London. Paolo has been involved in several major international arbitrations and his field of expertise includes construction disputes (including project financing disputes), IP disputes, turnkey contracts, consultancy agreements, joint venture agreements, agency, licensing in the pharma industry, State contracts, contracts and disputes in the aviation and aerospace industry, M&A and post-M&A disputes, gas price review disputes, banking and finance disputes, sport and sponsoring disputes, commodities disputes. Paolo has experience acting as mediator and counsel in mediations in commercial cases. He is listed in the panel of mediators for IP disputes jointly drawn up by the WIPO and the Chamber of Arbitration of Milan. Paolo has also experience as member of dispute boards in complex construction projects. Paolo has published extensively on international arbitration and is very often called as lecturer in seminars dealing with arbitration-related matters.