Legance - Avvocati Associati

Dispute Resolution

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Cecilia Carrara’s focus is in the field of national and international, commercial and investment arbitration, acting as counsel and as arbitrator. She further represents international and Italian companies in arbitration-related proceedings in front of the national courts, such as recognition and enforcement proceedings of arbitral awards. Cecilia has been admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court.

Cecilia also has a significant expertise in disputes with a transnational dimension, in particular in the fields of post M&A, governance/strategic risks, directors liability, commercial contracts as well as EPC contracts, investments and concessions.

Cecilia has a specific focus on German speaking countries and Eastern Europe, in particular she advises clients from the DACH area (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

Cecilia is a member of Legance’s Sustainability Committee.

Italian, English, German, French, Spanish

Member of the Rome Bar (Italy)

Cecilia is a member of the Steering Committee of the Pledge and the IBA Task Force in charge of reviewing the 2010 IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration. She is co-founder of ArbIt (the Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR) and member of its Advisory Board.

She has been a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration from July 2015 until January 2020, of the Board Council of ICC Italy from January 2018 until May 2019, co-chair of the arbitration working group of ASLA (the Association of Italian Law Firms) from January 2014 to November 2019 and Vice Chair of the Host Committee of the IBA Annual Conference held in Rome in October 2018. She has also been a member of the ICC Task Force on Emergency Arbitrator Proceedings and of the ICC Task Force on Arbitration of Climate Change Related Disputes and of the IBA Task Force in charge of reviewing the 2010 IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration. She is co-founder of ArbIt (the Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR) and member of its Advisory Board.

As from December 2021, Cecilia is a member of the Beirat of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS).

As from April 2022, Cecilia is a member of the Executive Board of the UN Global Compact Network Italy.

As of January 2023, Cecilia is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (“VIAC”).

As of January 2023, Cecilia has been designated by the Italian government as a member of the ICSID Panel of Conciliators.

As of June 2024, Cecilia is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration (“LCIA”).

As of July 2024 Cecilia is a Delegate of the National Committee to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR.

As from January 2025, Cecilia is a member of the SIAC Panel of Arbitrators.

In 1997 she graduated in Law, summa cum laude, at Università “LUISS - Guido Carli”, Rome, Italy. In 1999 she obtained a LL.M. in Comparative and International Private Law and in 2005 a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Private Law, both at Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany.

In 2005 she obtained a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Private Law in Berlin.

She was researcher in comparative commercial law at the LUISS Guido Carli University from 2006 to 2016.

In 2000 she was a Visiting lawyer at Hengeler Mueller in Berlin.