Chairman

Professor Piergrossi is the founding partner and the Chairman of Piergrossi Studio Legale. For over tirthy years he has successfully represented domestic as well as international clients in a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters including Commercial and Corporate Law, M&A, Capital Markets, Insolvency and Restructuring.

He is a renowned specialist in Intellectual Property and regularly assists clients in issues pertaining to patents, trademarks, trade names, domain names, copyright, industrial and fashion design, technology transfer, licensing, e-commerce, sponsorship, advertising and media law issues. Thanks to his extensive litigation, arbitration and mediation experience he has helped domestic as well as international clients to successfully protect and enforce their intellectual property rights, especially in the medical, pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotechnology industry sectors.

He is also an accomplished litigator, having represented clients in domestic and international litigation and alternative dispute resolution proceedings such as arbitration and mediation. In addition to serving as a counsel, he is often appointed as arbitrator, and also sole arbitrator, in both domestic and international proceedings.

In addition to his practice, he is a member of the Board of Directors of a number of companies, in particular in the pharmaceutical industry.

He was the Chairman of the law firm Piergrossi Bianchini Eversheds, which he established in 1975 and that later became the Italian member of the English alliance Eversheds International, which he left in 2009 to found Piergrossi Studio Legale.

He has been a professor of Civil Procedure Law at the University of Milan, School of Law, and a professor of Private and Procedural International Law at the University of Siena. In 1968 he was Teaching and Research Assistant at Stanford School of Law. He has published extensively in his areas of expertise and acted as a Court expert on Italian law and civil procedure before the High Court of Justice, London, UK. In 2005, he lectured at Harvard Law School.

He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Milan in 1963 and obtained an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School in 1967. He was admitted to the Italian Bar in 1966. He is admitted to plead before the Italian Supreme Court.

In the years 2004-2007, he was President of the Harvard Law School Association of Europe.

Selected Activities

• Selected Speaker, Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), conference “Preparing a Memorandum of Understanding/Letter of Intent”, Park City, Utah, 27 February – 6 March 2010
• Selected Speaker, International Insolvency Institute (III), conference “Criminal Liability of Directors and Officers in Insolvency Proceedings under Italian Law”, Berlin, 9-10 June 2008
• Selected Speaker, Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), conference “How Conflict of Laws Applies in Tort Cases”, Vail, 23 February – 1 March 2008
• Selected Speaker, Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), conference “The Tracing and Freezing of Assets in Aid of Litigation. Italian Report. Italian Jurisdiction”, Paris, 31 October – 4 November 2007
• Selected Speaker, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), conference “Key Terms in a Licensing Agreement: Subject Matter and Scope”, Istanbul, Turkey, 29 May – 1 June 2007
• Selected Speaker, Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), conference “Study of an Arbitration Involving the Breach of Representations and Warranties”, Sestriere, Italy, 17-24 February 2007
• Selected Speaker, International  Trademark Association (INTA), Leadership Conference, conference “Overview of Italian Law Provisions and cases on Well-Known Trademarks and Dilution”, Phoenix, Arizona, 8-11 November 2006
• Selected Speaker, International Insolvency Institute (III), conference “Saving the Going Concern: Must the Crew Abandon the Ship?”, New York, 10-14 June 2006
• Selected Speaker, International  Trademark Association (INTA) Annual Meeting, conference “Trademarks with a Reputation under Italian Law”, Toronto, 6-10 May 2006
• Selected Speaker, International  Trademark Association (INTA) Annual Meeting, conference “Parallel Imports under Italian Law”, Toronto, 6-10 May 2006

Activities

• Professor Emeritus of Civil Procedure, University of Milan School of Law, Italy
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Chinese European Arbitration Centre (CEAC)
• Delegate and European subcommittee member of the International Trademark Association (INTA)
• President, Harvard Law School Association of Europe, 2004-2007
• Former Professor of Private and Procedural International Law, University of Siena Law School, Italy
• Stanford School of Law, Stanford, California, U.S.A., Teaching and Research Assistant, 1968

Memberships

• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)
• Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage (ASA)
• International Insolvency Institute (III)
• Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA)
• International Bar Association (IBA)
• Harvard Law School Association of Europe
• Harvard Club of Italy
• Harvard Business Club of Italy
• Italian Association of Scholars of Procedural Law
• Italian Association of Comparative Law
• Milan Bar Association

Selected Publications

• Contributor: The EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings. A Commentary and Annotated Guide (Gabriel Moss, Ian F. Fletcher, S. Isaacs Eds.), 2d Ed., Oxford University Press, 2009
• Author: Overview of Italian Law Provisions Concerning Trademark Dilution. International  Trademark Association (INTA) DWKM European Subcommittee (Dilution and Well-Known Marks Committee), 2009
• Author: Chapter in the book “EU Banking and Insurance Insolvency”, edited by Moss and Wessels, Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Author: Treatise “L’arbitrato commerciale negli Stati Uniti d’America e suoi rapporti con l’ordinamento italiano” (Commercial arbitration in the U.S.A. and its relationship with Italian arbitration), Milan, 352, 1974
• Author: Esecutorieta' della sentenza e opposizione di terzo (Enforceability of a Judgment and Opposition of Third Parties), Padova, 20, 1965

Education

• LL.M., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1967
• J.D. , University of Milan, Milan, Italy, 1963

Bar Admissions

• Italy
• Italian Supreme Courts

Languages

• Italian
• English
• French