Paolo MARZOLINI
Paolo Marzolini is a founding partner of Patocchi & Marzolini. Paolo is acting as counsel representing clients and he is sitting as arbitrator in Switzerland and a number of other jurisdictions under various sets of arbitration rules (including, but not limited to, the ICC Rules, Swiss Rules, LCIA Rules, UNCITRAL Rules, DIAC Rules, ISTAC Rules, Milan Chamber of Arbitration Rules, VIAC Rules, DIS Rules, CAS Rules, ICDR-AAA Rules, JAMS Rules, QICCA Rules and WIPO Rules).
Paolo has had practical experience in a number of systems of law such as Italian, Swiss, French, English, Spanish, U.S., German, Dutch, Bahamian, Libyan, Iranian, Qatari, Emirati, Egyptian, Chinese, South Korean, Japanese, Senegalese, Malaysian, Turkish, Romanian and Greek.
Paolo has worked in the international dispute resolution departments of leading law firms in Geneva and London.
Paolo has been involved in several major international arbitrations and his field of expertise includes construction disputes (including project financing disputes), IP disputes, turnkey contracts, consultancy agreements, renewable energies industry, joint venture agreements, agency, licensing, commercialisation and distribution as well as trial tests for drugs in the pharma industry, State contracts, contracts and disputes in the aviation and aerospace industry, national defence, M&A and post-M&A disputes, gas price review disputes, banking and finance disputes, sport and sponsoring disputes, sanction-related disputes and commodities disputes.
Paolo has experience acting as mediator and counsel in mediations in commercial cases. He is listed in the panel of mediators for IP disputes jointly drawn up by the WIPO and the Chamber of Arbitration of Milan.
Paolo has also experience as member of dispute boards in complex construction projects.
Paolo has served as case manager at the Chamber of Arbitration of Milan in the period 2003-2007 and, in that capacity, he has acted as administrative secretary to domestic and international arbitral tribunals in over 150 arbitrations.
He completed his graduate and post-graduate studies in Geneva and Zurich (Swiss Arbitration Academy, ArbP, 2010), Pavia (Laurea in giurisprudenza Dr. iur., 2002) and Paris (University of Paris 1, Pantheon – Sorbonne and Cornell Law School, Institute of International and Comparative Law, International Arbitration and Litigation, 2001).
Paolo has published extensively on international arbitration and is very often called as lecturer in seminars dealing with arbitration-related matters.
Paolo serves as a member of the Court of the Swiss Arbitration Centre (1 June 2020), as a member of the Special Committee of the Court of the Swiss Arbitration Centre (1 July 2022) and as Secretary to the Court of the Swiss Arbitration Centre (1 January 2024); he is a member of the Arbitral Council of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration (27 March 2025); he is former co-chair (2015-2016) and current member of the Advisory Board of ArbIt – Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR as well as member of the International Bar Association (IBA), the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb), the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), the Italian Arbitration Association (AIA), the Geneva Bar Association and the Pavia Bar Association.
