Michelangelo Cicogna

Michelangelo Cicogna is a partner at De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani since 2003. He was previously at the Chamber of Arbitration of Milan and in a law firm specialised in white collar crimes.

Michelangelo’s practice over the last 25 years has mainly focused on Arbitration and ADR, Litigation, Compliance and Employment law.

As far as Arbitration and ADR is concerned, Michelangelo has acted as counsel in both ad hoc and institutional arbitrations mainly under the rules of the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, the Milan Chamber of Arbitration, the Madrid Arbitration Court, the Chamber of Arbitration of Bucharest, Vienna International Arbitration Center (VIAC), Lebanon Chamber of Arbitration and MKAS in Moscow, handling numerous complex arbitrations including multi-party disputes and parallel proceedings.

As arbitrator, he has served as chairman, sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator in a number of arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, Milan Chamber of Arbitration, LCIA, DIS, Swiss Chambers of Commerce, PCA and the UNCITRAL rules as well as in ad hoc arbitrations.

He has been involved, in different capacities, in over 150 arbitrations. He also regularly serves as mediator in international and domestic mediations.

His dispute resolution work predominantly relates to Construction or Infrastructure Projects, Energy, Insurance coverage issues, IT and TMT, Joint Ventures and Consortia, Fashion, M&A and general commercial and distribution matters.

Michelangelo’s practice also focuses on Compliance and anti-bribery law. He chairs the Supervisory Board for Compliance of several multinational groups (some of them listed at the NY and Milan stock Exchange). Michelangelo has been assisting his clients in various capacities in some of the most sensitive compliance investigations over the last decade and has structured compliance programs for multinational companies.