Mattia Amadei

Mattia Amadei is a civil litigation attorney and founder of Studio Legale Amadei, based in Mantua, Italy, with over 25 years of experience in civil litigation, industrial property law, and alternative dispute resolution. Admitted to the Bar in 2001, he combines an active judicial practice before ordinary and specialized Courts, Courts of Appeal, and the Italian Supreme Court with a well-established track record in arbitration and mediation, currently serving as President of an Arbitral Tribunal (in an arbitration relating to the transfer of a branch of a business), Sole Arbitrator (in an arbitration relating to a dispute between a law firm and a departing partner) , and Civil and Commercial Mediator. Founder and manager, since 2011, of the Mediation Chamber of the Mantua Bar Association, which coordinates a panel of 35 accredited mediators and maintains a settlement rate in line with the national average, he has, over the years, handled or supervised a significant number of mediation and arbitration proceedings spanning commercial contracts, industrial property, and patent disputes. Since 2025 he has served as an advisor to the National Bar Association's (CNF) "Quality Project", run by the "Coordination of Legal Conciliation" (Coordinamento della Conciliazione Forense), which evaluates the performance of mediators within forensic mediation chambers nationwide. At the institutional level, he has been a standing member of the Arbitration Commission of the Italian National Bar Council (CNF) since 2022 (having previously served on the ADR Commission from 2019 to 2022), contributing to the drafting of uniform chamber regulations for Forensic Arbitration Chambers and to proposed reforms of Legislative Decree 28/2010 and Ministerial Decree 34/2017. He is also a member of the Justice Commission of the Alps Hockey League since 2019/2020, judging "off-ice" disciplinary disputes in an international sporting context between Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. In February 2023, he was elected as President of the Mantua Bar Association, coordinating approximately 800 lawyers, and since March 2023 as Secretary General of the Lombard Union of Forensic Bar Associations (ULOF), the body bringing together the 13 Bar Associations of the Lombardy region. He previously served as Counsellor and Secretary of the Mantua Bar (2010–2019) and Director of the Mantua Forensic Training School (2018–2022). Since 2023, he has been an accredited trainer and teacher at the Higher School of Advocacy (Scuola Superiore dell'Avvocatura) of the Italian Ministry of Justice, teaching in mediation certification courses. He holds master's degrees in Common Law, Contract Law, and Company Law from the University of Malta, in Industrial Property, and in Sports Law and Justice. He is fluent in English at C2 level, with basic proficiency in French and Spanish.