LCA Studio Legale

Dispute Resolution

Partner and Co-Head of the Dispute Resolution Department

Luciano is a partner at LCA Studio Legale. He has 20 years of experience in advising clients in litigation and arbitration cases in civil, commercial and bankruptcy matters. He has been involved in large national disputes, assisting Italian and international firms, and he has often been appointed arbitrator by colleagues and institutional bodies. Luciano also has wide experience in civil and professional liability and post-closing claims. He is an adjunct professor of financial market law at the University of Turin and he is the author of a number of publications in the field of civil and procedural Law. He is also co-author of Commentario Pratico al Regolamento della Camera Arbitrale di Milano.

Before becoming a partner of LCA in 2018, Luciano had been a partner of SeAS – Sanzo e Associati and, prior to this, had been the founding partner of the Mariconda e Associati Law Firm, together with Attorney Vincenzo Mariconda. Before this, he had practiced law at the Gramellini Leonelli Law Firm, and, earlier, he had even worked in the legal department of Banque Safdié (formerly known as Multi-Commercial Bank) in Geneva.

From 2009 to 2016, he was an honorary fellow in Private Law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, and since 2014, he has been an honorary fellow in Civil Procedural Law at the Università degli Studi di Milano.  He is the author of a number of publications in the field of Civil and Procedural Law, and since 2012, he has been working with the IPSOA Group – Wolters Kluwer in the updating of the ‘I Contratti’ databank, and the editing of the Commentated Civil Code, written by Guido Alpa and Vincenzo Mariconda.

Italian, English, French

He is a member of the arbitration society Associazione Italiana per l’Arbitrato.

Post-graduate specialization course in Corporate Law, Università degli Studi di Milano (2015) Post-graduate specialization course in Financial Markets Law, Università degli Studi di Milano (2014) Course in Finance, Institut de Formation de Gestionnaire de Patrimoine, Geneva (2003) Law Degree, Università degli Studi di Milano (2002)

Luciano Castelli was educated at the Istituto Gonzaga di Milano dei Fratelli delle Scuole Cristiane. There he commenced his studies in 1981, graduating from the Liceo Scientifico (i.e., High School). While he attended the Istituto Gonzaga, he also had the opportunity to become involved in voluntary work for several years through the coordination of the activities of the Aquilone Association, both in Milan and Haiti, where he was sent on a mission in 1993.