Antonino de Fina

Director
Email: aa.defina@definaconsultants.com
Phone: (61) 3 95550500, Fax: (61) 3 95550588
Jurisdiction:
France
Experience / Expertise:
International Trade
Investment Treaty
Life Sciences / Pharmaceuticals
Manufacturing
Maritime (dry)
Maritime (wet)
Negligence / Liability
Arbitration Centre Panel/Membership:
Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa), BANI, British Columbia Centre for International Commercial Arbitration , CIETAC, Cairo Regional Arbitration Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Chamber of National & International Arbitration of Milan, Commercial Arbitration Association of the Republic of China, Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade 2, Dubai International Arbitration Association, FICCI Arbitration and Conciliation Tribunal (FACT) New Delhi, India, FIDIC, GCC Commercial Arbitration Centre (Bahrain), HKIAC, ICA, ICDR, International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, The Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia, Israeli Institute of Commercial Arbitration, Korean Arbitration Board, Kuala Lumpur Regional International Arbitration Center, LCIA, Mauritius Chamber of Commerce & Industry International Arbitration Centre, Mediterranean & Middle East Institute of Arbitration, Qindao Arbitration Commission (PRC), World Intellectual Property Organisation Arbitration Centre, Geneva

Conducted a large number of arbitrations, both domestic and international and involving substantial sums up to approximately USD 40 billion (one case) and complex legal and factual issues, particularly in areas involving science and technology including the pharmaceutical industry, building and construction, general commercial contract disputes, long term supply contracts, breaches, termination, intellectual property, shipping and transport, telecommunications, major infrastructure, power and energy (including geothermal, thermal, hydro and nuclear power stations), oil, gas and mineral concessions resources and processes, joint ventures.

Arbitrations have been conducted under institutional rules such as ICC, SIAC and DIAC, UNCITRAL and ad hoc and governed variously by Common Law (Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA [New York, California, New Jersey], Canada [BC], Singapore, Hong Kong, India, United Kingdom), Civil Code (France, People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Italy, Germany, Korea, Switzerland, Venezuela, Chile) and Arab State Commercial Codes and procedural law (Bahrain, Dubai, Oman, Qatar, Yemen and UAE) substantive and Sharia’n law and in languages other than English.