Professor Bortolotti specialises in the field of international commercial law and has published a treaty on the law of international commercial contracts as well as several books and articles on these issues (see annexed list). Professor Bortolotti has collaborated for many years with the ICC and is, at present, the chairman of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice. Furthermore, Professor Bortolotti has chaired several ICC Task Forces which have drafted model contracts for international business (e.g. sale, agency, distribution and occasional intermediaries).

Memberships

• Member of the council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law
• Member of the executive committee of the Commissions on Competition and Arbitration of the Italian national committee of the ICC
• Member of the scientific committee of the Italian Arbitration Association
• Member of the scientific committee of the Revue de droit des affaires internationals (International Business Law Journal) and of the managing committee of the review Contratto e impresa/Europa
• Member of the Licensing Executives Society and of the International Bar Association

Vitae

In 1966 Professor Bortolotti graduated in law at the University of Torino. There, he also became a Professor of International Commercial Law and was admitted to the Torino bar in 1980. Professor Bortolotti has been active in the field of European antitrust law and - after Italy enacted the Antitrust Law 287/90 - in Italian competition law.

A founding partner of the law firm Bortolotti, Mathis & Associati, which is now part of the associated law firms Buffa, Bortolotti & Mathis, Professor Bortolotti assists multinational Italian and foreign companies particularly on matters regarding national and European antitrust law, negotiation of international contracts and international litigation. Professor Bortolotti has developed a particular specialisation in the field of domestic and international distribution law (commercial agency, distributorship, franchising, etc.) but is at the same time currently engaged in the traditional issues of cross-border contracts and international litigation, such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, licensing, international sales, sale of equipment, turnkey contracts, industrial cooperation, transfer of technology, etc.

Professor Bortolotti has acted and is at present engaged as an arbitrator or counsel in numerous international and domestic arbitrations as well institutional - particularly ICC - as ad hoc. Professor Bortolotti was involved in the drafting of the arbitration rules of the Piedmont Arbitral Chamber and the Curia Mercatorum of Treviso, particularly with respect to innovative procedures in the field of fast arbitration and mediation. Professor Borrtolotti contributed to the creation of the European Network for Dispute Resolution.

Professor Bortolotti has been dealing with various aspects of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and has participated as an expert in several seminars on mediation techniques. He is an accredited mediator of the Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR).

Languages

Italian, French, English, German, Dutch and Spanish

Publications

• Manuale di diritto commerciale internazionale, vol. III, La distribuzione internazionale. Contratti con agenti, distributori ed altri intermediari, Padova 2002;
• Manuale di diritto commerciale internazionale, vol. II, La redazione dei contratti internazionali.Modelli di contratto, schede paese ed altri materiali, Padova, 2002;
• Manuale di diritto commerciale internazionale, vol.I, Diritto dei contratti internazionali (Manual of international commercial law, vol. I, Law of international contracts), 2001
• I contratti di subfornitura (Subcontracting Agreements), 1999;
• Il contratto di agenzia commerciale, (Commercial Agency Law), 2003
• La nuova disciplina dell'agenzia commerciale (The New Law on Commercial Agency), 1999;
• (con D. Ferrier, O. Lando, D. Matray, K. Meyer-Swantee, V. Roberts), The ICC Agency Model Contract: a Commentary, Deventer-Boston, 1993;
• Contratti internazionali di trasferimento di tecnologia: legislazioni (International Contracts for Transfer of Technology: Legislations), 1986;
• (con A. Previsani) Guide pour la conclusion de contrats d'agence et de concession l'tranger, Parigi, 1981;
• Le regole di concorrenza nei trattati della CEE e della CECA (Rules of Competition in the EEC and ECSC Treaties), 1971.