Giovanni De Berti graduated in law, maxima cum laude, at the Milan State University in 1962.
He has been practising law since 1963. After qualifying in Italy he studied at the Council of Legal Education in London and was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Gray's Inn in 1970. Back to Italy, he was associate and partner of Graziadei, then the leading international law firm in Italy. He is a founding partner of the Firm. Giovanni De Berti has been active in professional associations (President of the Milan Young Lawyers Association, of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats, of the Milan Law School Alumni Association; officer of the Union Internationale des Avocats), has held appointments with the Italian Bar (Delegate to the Italian Lawyers' Pension Fund and to Italian National Bar Congresses, President of the Milan Bar Commission for International Relations) and is Regional Secretary for Asia of the Union Internationale des Avocats.
His professional practice has been devoted to commercial and corporate matters, contract drafting, mergers and acquisitions, stock purchase agreements, joint ventures, leasing, purchasing and selling of goods, supply of services (namely logistics), agency and distribution (namely of medical products), construction, media and entertainment, product liability, as well as litigation in these and other subjects.
He has been acting as attorney, party appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator and president of arbitration tribunals in proceedings of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, the European Court of Arbitration, the Italian Arbitration Association, the Milan Chamber of National and International Arbitration, the Italian Chamber of Arbitration of Public Works and in ad hoc domestic and international arbitration proceedings. He is on the arbitrators list of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, the Italo-Swedish Chamber of Commerce-Assosvezia, the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Italy, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (member of the Practice & Standards Committee and member of the European Branch Committee).
He has also been acting as mediator and attorney in institutional and ad hoc mediation proceedings and is an accredited mediator of the Milan Chamber of National and International Arbitration, the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), the Italy-China International Business Mediation Centre, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the Milan Bar Mediation Institution and is a Fellow (Mediation) and chairman of the Mediation Sub-Committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He is author of legal works and papers, frequent speaker at legal conferences and lecturer at seminars.
Languages: English and French, notions of German.
