Francesco Tonini, PhD.

Francesco's practice focuses on litigation and national and international arbitration.

He has advised on specific issues relating to financial mis-selling cases and to the collapse of leading credit institutions and the liability of auditors. He has also advised on disputes relating to M&A transactions and in general on corporate law issues (liability actions against directors, auditors and statutory auditors; actions for the setting aside of shareholder and board resolutions), as well as on various litigation proceedings in the ambit of bankruptcy proceedings. He has accrued experience in domestic and international arbitration proceedings mainly before the ICC.

Francesco graduated with honours in 2017 from the University of Ferrara and qualified in 2020. In March 2023 he completed a research doctorate in civil law at the University of Pavia, with a thesis focused on the liability of the financial intermediary. 

Publications:

• L'invalidità "selettiva" del contratto di investimento rimessa alle Sezioni Unite (La Nuova Giurisprudenza Civile Commentata, n.1/2019, 2019)
• Nullità selettiva del contratto di investimento e principio di buona fede (L’Annuario del Contratto 2019, D’Angelo – Roppo, 2020)
• Sugli obblighi informativi dell'intermediario successivi alla negoziazione di strumenti finanziari (Rivista Pactum, I, 2022, March 2022)
• Polizze Unit Linked: natura del negozio e principio del "doppio binario" (Rivista Pactum, online, March 2022)
• Immeritevolezza del derivato interest rate swap per mancata indicazione della formula di calcolo del mark to market (Rivista Pactum, online, March 2023)
• Sul regime di validità negoziale dell'interest rate swap c.d. macro-hedging (L’Annuario del Contratto 2022, D’Angelo – Roppo, 2023).