Giorgio Risso’s practice focuses on international dispute resolution with a particular emphasis on public and private international law.

Giorgio has experience representing multinational corporations and sovereigns in complex matters and high-stakes disputes across a range of industries, including telecommunications, media, financial services, and energy and natural resources. Giorgio has represented clients in arbitrations under the ICSID, ICC, and UNCITRAL rules, seated in the world’s most frequently selected arbitral seats, including Paris, Geneva, London, Vienna, and Milan, as well as in court proceedings involving cross-border issues and/or foreign jurisdictions.

Giorgio joined the firm in 2017. From 2020 to 2021 he practiced in the London office of an international law firm. Before joining Cleary Gottlieb, Giorgio was a Research Fellow at the University of Genoa and a Visiting Researcher at King’s College London.

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Selected Activities

  • Member, European Society of International Law (ESIL)
  • General Editor, Cambridge International Law Journal
  • Member, Swiss Arbitration Association Below 40
  • Member, Young ICCA
  • Contributor, Investment Claims (Oxford University Press)
  • Member, AIA Arb-IT-40
  • Lizette Bentwich Prize for Law
  • Senior Scholarship, Trinity College
  • Henry Arthur Hollond Fund Bursary

Publications

  • “Due Diligence in International Investment Law,” Journal of International Arbitration, Volume 38, Issue 6 (2021).
  • “Portfolio Investment in ICSID Arbitration: Just a Matter of Consent?” [2020] Journal of International Arbitration 341-362.

  • “Pleas of Illegality and the Application of Domestic Law in Investment Treaty Arbitration” (with Anna Chiara Amato) [2020] Cambridge Journal of International Law 96-116.
  • “Case Comment on Fábrica de Vidrios Los Andes CA and Owens-Illinois de Venezuela CA v Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Award, 13 November 2017, ICSID Case No ARB/12/21” [2019] Investment Claims (Oxford University Press)
  • “Case Comment on Dawood Rawat v Mauritius, Award on Jurisdiction, 6 April 2018, PCA Case No 2016-20” [2019] Investment Claims (Oxford University Press)
  • “Product Liability and Protection of EU Consumers: Is It Time for a Serious Reassessment?” [2019] Journal of Private International Law 210-233
  • “Financial Torts and Investor Protection: Is the Europeanisation of Third State Cases a Viable Solution?” [2016] Netherlands International Law Review 313-334.
  • “Investor Protection in Credit Rating Agencies’ Non-Contractual Liability: the Need for a Fully Harmonised Regime” [2015] European Law Review 706-721.
  • “Insider trading e Direttiva Market Abuse Directive: la nozione di ‘informazione precisa’ torna al vaglio della Corte di giustizia” [2015] Eurojus.it, on-line review directed by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the University of Milan.
  • “A First Step towards the Localisation of the Harmful Event in Financial Torts? Case Comment on C-375/13 Kolassa v Barclays Bank” [2015] KSLR Blog on European Law.
  • “Consulenza in materia di investimenti e tutela dell’investitore nella direttiva MiFID: tra armonizzazione europea e soluzioni interpretative nazionali” [2014] Contratto e Impresa/Europa 813-837, 
  • “Il riconoscimento e l’esecuzione delle decisioni giudiziarie nel regolamento Bruxelles I bis” (with Dr. Elena Gualco) [2014] Diritto del commercio internazionale 837-871.
  • “La responsabilità extracontrattuale della società di rating: riflessioni in tema di competenza giurisdizionale” [2013] Diritto del commercio internazionale 847-863.

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