Senior Legal Counsel

Giacomo joined Deminor in 2022.

Main tasks

• Assessment of litigation funding opportunities in international arbitration and commercial litigation.
• Promoting and managing Italian cases in the three core business areas of Deminor: Investment Recovery, Antitrust Damages and Commercial Litigation.

Previous work experience

• Lawyer, Gianni & Origoni, Litigation and Arbitration department, Milan (Italy), 2017 - 2021.

Education

• LL.M. (Master of Laws) - International Business Disputes, Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne (Switzerland), 2021 - 2022.
• Combined Bachelor and Master of Science in Law, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan (Italy), 2011 - 2017.

Additional information

• F. Ortega – G. Lorenzo: Funding Construction and Hospitality Disputes after COVID, Hospitality & Construction Disputes Post-Covid - Chapter 1, International and Comparative Business Law and Public Policy - Volume 6, November 2023 (Chapter 1 Funding Construction and Hospitality Disputes after COVID in: Hospitality & Construction Disputes Post-Covid (brill.com)).
• G. Lorenzo: The Third Party Litigation Funding Law Review: Italy, The Third Party Litigation Funding Law Review, Edition 6, December 2022
  (https://thelawreviews.co.uk/title/the-third-party-litigation-funding-law-review/italy).
• G. Lorenzo: An Introduction to Third-Party Funding, Lagos Court of Arbitration newsletter, March 2022, p. 13 (https://www.lca.org.ng/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/LCA-MARCH-NEWSLETTER2.pdf).
• R. Zaccà – G. Lorenzo: La legittimazione passiva del socio illimitatamente responsabile e le sentenze ccd. della “terza via”, Il Foro Padano, 75/3, 2019, pp. 303-313.
• R. Zaccà – G. Lorenzo: La natura evolutivo-modificativa dell’operazione di fusione per incorporazione e i conseguenti effetti processuali, Il Foro Padano, 75/1, 2019, pp. 50-59.
• R. Zaccà – G. Lorenzo: La natura contrattuale del rapporto tra socio e società e l’onere della prova della regolare convocazione del socio in assemblea, Il Foro Padano, 74/4, 2018, pp. 607-614.

• External lecturer at the University of Lausanne, LL.M. International Business Law programme, International Arbitration Advanced course, Litigation Funding, May 2023.
• J. Klein, G. Lorenzo and F. Von Zwehl: Antitrust code Podcast - Funding Private Enforcement, February 2023 ((260) Antitrust code Podcast - Funding Private Enforcement - YouTube).
• Conference organized by Centre for International Law and Governance, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen – The Energy Charter Treaty between Modernization and Termination: Prospects for Danish Energy Investors, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2023.
• Webinar organized by ENSafrica and ǼLEX – Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration, 2022.
• Webinar organized by Centre for International Law and Governance, Hasselt University and Seven Summit Arbitration – The Energy Charter Treaty at a Crossroads, 2022.
• Trainer at the Camera Arbitrale di Milano arbitration course – Arbitrato: Fondamenti e tecniche, Il Third Party Funding, Milan (Italy), 2022.
• International Conference “Construction and Hospitality Disputes Post-COVID” – Funding Construction and Hospitality disputes in the UAE, Lausanne (Switzerland), 2021.
• Corso di formazione Giudiziale per Praticanti Avvocati, ASLA – Associazione Studi Legali Associati, Ordine degli avvocati di Milano, Milan (Italy), 2020.
• Corso di formazione Giudiziale per Praticanti Avvocati, ASLA – Associazione Studi Legali Associati, Ordine degli avvocati di Milano, Milan (Italy), 2019.

Professional Organization
Swiss section of the Associazione Italiana per l’Arbitrato (AIA).

Languages
• Italian (native).
• English (advanced).