Matteo Vaccaro-Incisa, Ph.D. (Geneva & Bocconi), LL.M. (MIDS), dual-qualified attorney-at-law (Spain, Italy), academic; since May 2021, responsible for the international law & dispute settlement area at Carnelutti Law Firm.
Included in the original list of arbitrators and experts for bilateral disputes under EU trade agreements, he is also indicated on the lists with the arbitration courts of, e.g., London (LCIA), Madrid (CIAM), and Belgrade (BAC). He has served as an arbitrator in commercial disputes and, as counsel and expert, he participated in several international arbitration proceedings under different sets of rules (e.g., UNCITRAL, ICSID, ICC, SCC), including investment cases in connection with complex questions of jurisdiction, comparative law, and States’ treaty practice.
His services in international contract negotiation and dispute settlement are requested by leading players in different areas of business, such as steel and raw materials, international quality marks and accreditation processes, crypto-assets, or world-record engineering projects.
Notably, to the practice of law Matteo combines a distinguished academic profile. He has been a Jean Monnet Senior Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence, 2019-2020), Professeur-Chercheur at the Institut d’Économie Scientifique et de Gestion (Paris, 2016-2019), Marie-Curie Research & Teaching Fellow at Bocconi University (Milan, 2012-2015), and Permanent Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Lille (Lille, 2010-2016). He has also been visiting scholar at Durham (2019), Sydney (2018), Hong Kong (2017), Melbourne (2016), Buenos Aires (2015), Belgrade (2014).
His academic publication record delves on issues of international economic law, public international law, and international dispute settlement, including a monograph on China’s treaty policy & practice in international investment law & arbitration (Brill-Nijhoff, 2021). He has also taught techniques & ethics of legal writing and oral advocacy for international courts and tribunals, including to the Italian, French, and Swiss representatives participating in international law moot courts (Jessup, Telders, FIAMC, Vis). He is an advisory board member of Arb-It, the Italian Association for the promotion of international arbitration.
Fluent in English, Spanish, and French, in addition to native Italian; he also speaks conversational Serbo-Croatian and has a basic knowledge of Greek and Russian.
The Polish Research Center for Law and Economy of China and the University of Warsaw School of Law and Economy of China will host the annual conference of the European Association of Chinese Law Firms (ECLS). Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa will be speaking about "China and the arbitration reform on international investments: tablemate, chef or host?" at the panel devoted to "Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and Conflict of Laws". Click here for the full conference program.
On Thursday, 17 June 2021, Dr. Matteo Vaccaro-Incisa, head of the international business law & arbitration practice, acted as Lead Discussant to the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, Prof. Juliane Kokott, speaking on "The Settlement of Tax Treaty Disputes by the European Court of Justice", at a workshop organized by the Leiden University on “Globalization and digitalization: interconnections between taxation, trade, and investment".
