About

With over 25 years of experience managing legal matters relevant to international enterprises, Marco Lorefice has advised Edison on all major topics from commercial advisory to litigation in the oil and gas industry since 1998. A comprehensive and thorough legal expert in the field, Lorefice is noted by one source as having the ability to deal with difficult challenges ‘without missing any of the key issues, reaching favourable terms and protecting the interest of the [business] partners’. His reputation acts as an indication of his leadership on complex issues related to a myriad of specialties, including both upstream and downstream, contract drafting, mergers and acquisitions and construction projects on a domestic and worldwide basis. Spoken of as having an ‘astonishingly good understanding of “the big picture” without ever losing sight of important details’, Lorefice’s recognition has been reached through both his legal knowledge and managerial talent. He is trusted as being able to ‘organise and lead the legal team, to manage intercompany functions and to address relationships with stakeholders’, brought about by experience in previous legal managerial roles at Alitalia and GE Oil & Gas dating back to 1990. Having had tremendous success on arbitration matters over the last five years, Lorefice has also been at the forefront of the industry in terms of price review matters, seeing 10 cases over the same period of time. Lorefice has also contributed to knowledge sharing efforts within the industry by publishing articles related to energy arbitration, as well as being invited to speak as a panellist at several international legal conferences. He is also a member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law.