Partner

Matteo M. Winkler is a Partner at the Milan office of Piergrossi and specializes in litigation and arbitration. He advises on a wide range of civil and commercial transactions, including licensing deals and advertising and sponsorship agreements. Over the years, he has also acquired broad-based/ wide-ranging/ valuable/ substantial experience advising on entertainment law, press regulation and the advertising industry.

He has also gained extensive experience in national and international commercial arbitration, mediation and litigation, including insolvency procedures and corporate restructurings. He has represented clients in complex commercial negotiations and civil proceedings involving manufacturing companies and sophisticated engineering and industrial plants, especially with regard to product liability, industrial defects, breach of contract and tort liability. He has successfully defended clients in libel and defamation actions and complex disputes arising out of corruption charges.

Prior to joining Piergrossi in 2009, he worked at the Milan office of a pre-eminent English law firm.

He widely published in major Italian and U.S. law reviews and regularly lectures at Bocconi University, at Catholic University of Milan and at other academic institutions both in Italy and abroad, on various aspects of private and public international law, international civil procedure, international economic law and European law. He has also been a visiting scholar at Uppsala Law School, and a visiting researcher at Yale Law School.

He graduated from the Catholic University of Milan in 2001 and received a Ph.D. in International Economic Law from Bocconi Commercial University in 2007. In 2007, he obtained an LL.M. degree from Yale Law School. He was admitted to the Italian Bar in 2006.

Books:

• Author: Imprese multinazionali e diritto internazionale nell’era della globalizzazione [Multinational Enterprises and International Law in a Globalized Era], Milan, 2008

Articles:

• Author: ‘The Proposal of Modification of the Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings’, 27 DIRITTO DEL COMMERCIO INTERNAZIONALE 141-165 (2013)
• Author: ‘Reciprocity in the Era of Human Rights’, 77 RESPONSABILITA' CIVILE E PREVIDENZA 1178-1188 (2012)
• Author: ‘Jurisdiction and Conflict of Laws on the Web: New Important Remarks from the European Court of Justice’, 77 RESPONSABILITA' CIVILE E PREVIDENZA 796-822 (2012)
• Author: ‘The Battisti Case and the Uncertain Promises of International Law’, 2012 CORRIERE GIURIDICO 900-907 (2012)
• Author: ‘Multinational Enterprises and the Moving Jurisprudence of the Alien Tort Statute’, 11 INT‘L LIS 40-48 (2012)
• Author: ‘Fraus Omnia Corrumpit: The Mondadori Case and the Court of Appeals of Milan’, 44 GIURISPRUDENZA DI MERITO 75-90 (2012)
• Author: ‘Circulation of Default Judgments and Procedural Public Order in the European Judicial Space’, 2011 LA NUOVA GIURISPRUDENZA CIVILE COMMENTATA 574-585 (2011)
• Author: ‘The French Reform of Arbitration Law. A Systematic Commentary (with Michela De Santis), First Part: Arbitration Agreement and Arbitral Proceeding’, 25 DIRITTO DEL COMMERCIO INTERNAZIONALE 927-971 (2011); Second Part: The Award, Review and International Arbitration, 26 DIRITTO DEL COMMERCIO INTERNAZIONALE 59-107 (2012)
• Author: ‘The Empire Strikes Back. English Civil Procedure and European Public Order in the Case Gambazzi-Stolzenberg’, 25 DIRITTO DEL COMMERCIO INTERNAZIONALE 703-734 (2011)
• Author: ‘King Can Do Wrong. The Legislator‘s Liability and Tort Claims for Breaches to the European Union Law in the Italian Case-Law’, in STUDI IN ONORE DI UGO DRAETTA 799-813 (Napoli: 2011)
• Author: ‘The El Dridi Case and the Court of Justice: Towards a «More Human» Management of the Returns of Aliens in Italy? (Note to ECJ dec., April 28, 2011)’, 76 RESPONSABILITA' CIVILE E PREVIDENZA 1485-1508 (2011)
• Author: ‘Francovich Strikes Back: Another Condemnation of the Government for Delayed (and Wrong) Implementation of a European Directive’, 76 RESPONSABILITA' CIVILE E PREVIDENZA 918-941 (2011)
• Author: ‘Tort Claims and Death of a Family Member between Reciprocity, Fundamental Rights and Liability Limitations’, 76 RESPONSABILITA' CIVILE E PREVIDENZA 151-172 (2011)
• Author: ‘Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell: Tort Actions for Violations of International Law Against Multinational Enterprises Are No Longer Permitted’, 26 DIRITTO DEL COMMERCIO INTERNAZIONALE 213-230 (2011)
• Author: ‘The Italian Class Action: A Difficult Law‘s Theoretical and Practical Issues’, LXXV RESPONSABILITA' CIVILE E PREVIDENZA 1675-1696 (2010)
• Author: ‘The «Brussels Regime» and the Joint Proceedings: A (Correct) U-Turn of Our Supreme Court’, LXXIV RESPONSABILITA' CIVILE E PREVIDENZA 2097-2107 (2009)
• Author: ‘Court Save the Queen’: The European Court of Justice Quashes Another Deeply-Rooted Common Law Remedy in Transnational Parallel Litigation, TRANSNATIONAL DISPUTE MANAGEMENT TMD, 2009
• Author: When ‘Extraordinary’ Means Illegal: International law and the European Reactions to the United States Rendition Program, 30 LOYOLA L.A. INT’L & COMP. L. REV.. 33-76, 2008
• Author: When Legal Systems Collide: The Judicial Review of Freezing Measures in the Fight Against International Terrorism, V.B. Malleswarti (ed.), ANTITERRORISM LAWS. GLOBAL SCENARIO 30-68, 2008
• Author: From Whipped Cream to Multibillion Euro Financial Collapse: The European Regulation on Transnational Insolvency in Action, 26 BERK. J. INT’L L. 352-371, 2008
• Author: Arbitration without Privity and Russian Oil: the Yukos Case before the Houston Court, 27 U. PA. J. INT’L ECON. L. 115-153, 2006
• Author: Note sous CJCE, Owusu, 1er mars 2005 (avec Gilles Cuniberti), CLUNET JOURNAL DU DROIT INTERNATIONAL 1183-1191, 2005
• Author: L’apprezzamento dell’efficacia della clausola arbitrale da parte del giudice statale: un conflitto tra Italia e Francia [State Courts Ascertainment of the Validity of an Arbitration Clause: A Conflict Between Italy and France] (with Gilles Cuniberti), 22 DIRITTO DEL COMMERCIO INTERNAZIONALE 763-781, 2007
• Author: Eurofood: e' davvero finito il periodo di “rodaggio” del Regolamento comunitario sulle procedure d’insolvenza? [Eurofood: Is the Testing Period of the European Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings Actually Over?], 22 DIRITTO DEL COMMERCIO INTERNAZIONALE 513-536, 2007
• Author: Le procedure concorsuali relative ad imprese multinazionali: la Corte di Giustizia si pronuncia sul caso Eurofood [Crossborder Insolvencies Concerning Multinational Enterprises: the ECJ Rules the Eurofood Case], 6 INT’L LIS 15-20, 2007
• Author: Ricorso ad arbitrato in assenza di clausola arbitrale [Arbitration Without Privity], 14 I CONTRATTI 203-207, 2006
• Author: Forum non conveniens e Convenzione di Bruxelles: il caso Owusu dinanzi alla Corte di Giustizia [Forum Non Conveniens and the Brussels Convention: Owusu before the ECJ] (with Gilles Cuniberti), 19 DIRITTO DEL COMMERCIO INTERNAZIONALE 3-24, 2006
• Author: La responsabilita' delle imprese multinazionali per violazioni dei diritti dell’uomo nella giurisprudenza statunitense [Liability of Multinational Enterprises for Human Rights Violations in U.S. Case Law] in 52 JUS 541-566, 2005
• Author: Yukos: la Corte di Houston rifiuta di trattare il caso Yukos [the Houston Court Dismisses the Yukos Case], 19 DIRITTO DEL COMMERCIO INTERNAZIONALE 151-166, 2005

Education

• LL.M., Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, U.S.A., 2007 (International Law)
• Ph.D., Bocconi Commercial University, Milan, Italy, 2007 (International Economic Law)
• J.D., Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy, 2001 (International Law)

Bar Admissions

• Italy

Languages

• Italian
• English
• French