P R O F. A V V . PA O L O G I U D I C I
PERSONAL INFORMATION
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: Milan, 27 April 1964 STATUS: married, two children
CONTACTS: University
Free University of Bozen
School of Economics and Management 39100 Bozen
telephone: +39 0471 013140 fax: +39 0471 013009
e-mail: paolo.giudici@unibz.it Office
Via D’Annunzio, 2/57 16121 Genova
telephone: +39 010 5531815 fax: +39 010 5536238
e-mail: prof.giudici@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Degree in Law, University of Genoa, 110/110 cum laude (1987).
The final thesis on “Distribution agreements under EEC Competition Law and Practice” won the “Giuseppe Orlando Award” granted by Confcommercio in 1988.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
POSITION
Associate Professor of Business Law, University of Bozen.
Director of the Center for Research in Law & Economics, School of Economics and Management, University of Bozen.
Research member of ECGI, European Corporate Governance Institute, Bruxelles.
Fellow Professor, Law School, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
CURRENT FINANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Private enforcement in capital market law.
Securities class actions
(with G. Ferrarini and S. Lombardo) European Capital Markets Law Cases.
Concurrent Proceedings in Financial Markets Law.
Tort Law as a Form of Business Regulation: the European Approach.
Deterrence and corporate governance: the public and private enforcement interplay.
(with Fabio Tirio) Liberalization of services and promotion of competition in the internal market.
(with Fabio Tirio) Independent Authorities.
European Corporate Governance Training Workshop (ECGTN), member, in association with the “Dipartimento di Diritto Privato, Internazionale e Commerciale G.L.M. Casaregi”, Faculty of Law, University of Genoa (http://www.ecgtn.org).
PREVIOUS RESEARCH PROJECTS
See infra, “Publications”.
TEACHING SUBJECTS
University of Bozen Company Law.
Banking and Capital Market Law.
Start-up Law (2005).
Insolvency Law (2004).
Private Law (2002).
University of Genoa Business Law.
PROFESSIONAL RECORD
CURRENT
Regular legal consultancy on: listed company compliance with financial markets regulation; issuer liability; regulatory and other strategic issues concerning take- over bids, listing and delisting of companies, shareholder agreements. Clients representation before independent authorities and regulatory organizations.
Acting in and advising on: company law disputes raising questions of directors’
duties, auditors’ duties, shareholder and board litigation; claims concerning shares and other financial instrument purchase agreements; rules of conduct of investment firms and financial product misselling; antitrust litigation; contract litigation.
PREVIOUS
Partner, Giudici Morellini Law Firm, Genoa (2003-2005). Prevalent practice:
financial markets law and company law; regulatory proceedings; business litigation;
insolvency litigation, antitrust litigation.
Director, Navigazione Italiana s.p.a. (1997-2002).
Giudici Law Firm (1994-2002). Prevalent practice: financial markets law and company law; regulatory proceedings; business litigation; insolvency litigation;
antitrust litigation; financial transactions and ship finance.
Associate, Ferrarini Ferraro Law Firm (1991-1993).
Stagiaire, Richards Butler, London (June-July 1990).
Junior lawyer, Ferrarini Ferraro Law Firm (second semester 1988-1990).
Stagiaire, Reynolds Johnson & Green, London (first semester, 1988).
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
I prezzi predatori (Predatory pricing), Giuffrè, Milano, 2000.
ARTICLES
Il dibattito sulla limitazione di responsabilità delle società di revisione: la prospettiva italiana (The international debate on limitation of auditors’ liability: an Italian perspective), Riv. soc., 2007(forthcoming).
(with G. Ferrarini), La legge sul risparmio, ovvero un pot-pourri della corporate governance (On Italian corporate governance law reform), Riv. soc., 2006, 573.
(with G. Ferrarini), I revisori e teoria dei gatekeepers (Gatekeeper theory and auditors), Associazione Gian Franco Campobasso, Nuove prospettive della tutela del risparmio, Milano, 2006, 115.
(with G. Ferrarini), Financial Scandals and the Role of Private Enforcement: The Parmalat Case, in J. Armour-J. McCahery (eds.), After Enron, Hart Publishing, Oxford- Portland, 2006, 159 (the working paper is available at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=730403). The Italian version is: Scandali finanziari e ruolo dell’azione privata: il caso Parmalat, in Trattato di diritto commerciale e diritto pubblico dell’economia, F. Galgano-G. Visintini (eds.), vol. 43, 2006, 197.
Die Auswirkungen der Reform des Gesellschaftsrechtes auf die Finanzen der Aktinesgesellschaften, in P. Hilpold-C. Perathoner-W. Steinmar (eds.), Die Reform des italienischen Gesellschaftsrechts, Innsbruck, 2006, 143 ss.
L’azione di responsabilità contro gli amministratori esercitata dai soci di minoranza: i problemi di un legal transplant (Italian derivative actions: the problems of a legal transplant), NGCC, II, 2005, 473.
(with G. Ferrarini and M. Stella Richter), Company Law Reform: Real Progress?, Rabels Zeitschrift, 2005, no. 4, 658.
Private Antitrust Law Enforcement in Italy, in Competition Law Review, vol. 1, 2004, 61, available at: http://www.clasf.org/publications/workingpapers.htm.
L’abuso di posizione dominante di leghe e federazioni sportive (The abuse of dominant
position by sport associations), AIDA, 2003, 391.
(with G. Ferrarini), Le garanzie su strumenti finanziari nel diritto comunitario: orientamenti e prospettive (EC law of financial collateral), Fall., 2002, 999.
L’acquisto di concerto (Action in concert under Italian mandatory takeover rules), Riv.
soc., 2001, 490.
(with Alessandra De Cantellis and Paolo Terrile), Rassegna delle comunicazioni Consob in materia di offerte pubbliche di acquisto (Consob decisions concerning takeover rules), Riv. soc., 2001, 521.
Nota a Trib. Genova, 25 gennaio 2001 (sul privilegio dei crediti del promissario acquirente per mancata esecuzione dei contratti preliminari – note on purchaser’s lien in preliminary purchase agreement), Banca borsa, II, 2001, 191.
La regola di concentrazione ed il diritto antitrust (Stock exchanges’ concentration rules from an antitrust perspective, in P. Marchetti-G. Ferrarini (eds.), I servizi d’investimento dalla legge sim al testo unico dei mercati finanziari, Roma, 1999.
Commento all’art. 86 Trattato (Commentary: article 86 EC Treaty), in P. Marchetti-L.
C. Ubertazzi (eds.), Commentario breve al diritto della concorrenza2, Padova, 1997.
Commento all’art. 3 legge n. 287/1990 (Commentary: article 3 Italian antitrust law ), in P. Marchetti-L. C. Ubertazzi (eds.), Commentario breve al diritto della concorrenza2, Padova, 1997.
Commento all’art. 2 legge n. 287/1990 (Commentary: article 2 Italian antitrust law), in V. Afferni (ed.), Concorrenza e mercato, Padova, 1994, 55.
Commento all’art. 4 legge n. 287/1990 (Commentary: article 4 Italian antitrust law), in V. Afferni (ed.), Concorrenza e mercato, Padova, 1994, 145.
Commento all’art. 8 legge n. 287/1990 (Commentary: article 8 Italian antitrust law), in V. Afferni (ed.), Concorrenza e mercato, Padova, 1994, 237.
Nuovi orientamenti in tema di clausola «interessi uso piazza» (New judicial trends concerning interest clauses in banking contracts), Giur. comm., II, 1992, 647.
La clausola WIBON nei trasporti marittimi di carico (The WIBON clause in charterparties), Dir. comm. int., 1989, 143.
(with V. Afferni), Attività assicurativa non organizzata e nullità dei contratti di assicurazione: l’esperienza inglese (The English experience concerning unauthorized insurance activity and voidness of insurance policies), Dir. comm. int., 1988, 273.
October 2007