Ernesto Ardia > Studio Legale Lauro > Naples, Italy > Lawyer Profile

Studio Legale Lauro
VIA CARDINALE GUGLIELMO SANFELICE 8
80134 NAPLES
Italy

Work Department

Studio Legale Lauro

Position

Founding Partner

Career

Ernesto Ardia is a founding partner of Studio Legale Lauro, and was admitted to the Italian Bar in 1995.

He represents clients in court and in international arbitrations, as well as before the Supreme Court. He is active in shipping, commercial and corporate law.

Ernesto is known for representing ship-owners in collisions, salvage and marine pollution. He also receives instructions from clients worldwide, to enforce domestic and foreign court and arbitration judgments in Italian courts. He has on occasion dealt with bankruptcy proceedings. He is a member of the International Propeller Club.

Languages

Italian, English

Memberships

Member of the International Propeller Club.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Law (1991); entered the Register of the Lawyers before the Court of Naples (1995); entered the Special Register of the Lawyers allowed to appear before the Supreme Courts in Italy (2014)

Leisure

swimming (attends at Master competitions either in pool and open water); ski; tennis; hiking; travelling; reading (history and historical fiction, economics, crime & thriller)

Lawyer Rankings

Italy > Shipping

Studio Legale Lauro‘s Naples-based practice is well-known for its advice to global maritime and logistics business sector clients on maritime, commercial and international law matters. Former president of the Port Authority of Naples, commercial, shipping and M&A specialist Francesco Lauro, is ‘exceptionally knowledgeable in all matters relating to maritime and shipping law‘; and fellow founding partner Ernesto Ardia routinely acts for shipowners in collisions, salvage, and marine pollution matters.