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Fabio Trevisan

BSP
• Fabio Trevisan is a partner and head of BSP’s Dispute Resolution practice. His practice focuses on a wide spectrum of complex commercial, corporate and financial litigation and arbitration.

• He has played a role in a number of high-profile cases, with over two decades of experience in managing and conducting litigation for his clients in almost all sectors.

• Fabio has experience in all forms of dispute resolution including litigation, mediation and arbitration as well as general banking, corporate and commercial dispute resolution. He has extensive experience of applications for enforcing and obtaining freezing injunctions in international arbitration, enforcements of ICSID awards, and more generally in the recovery of assets.

• Fabio has further developed a reputation in connection with his work related to real estate matters. He represents institutional lenders, developers, general contractors and other business entities in a variety of commercial transactions and real estate law issues, including financing, corporate structuring, real estate development.

• In addition, he has extensive experience in commercial contracts, drafting and negotiating a number of complex commercial agreements for clients across a wide variety of industry sectors.

• Fabio is a member of the International Fraud Group. The IFG (previously known as the Fraud Network) is a handpicked group of specialist fraud lawyers across the world focused on securing injunctions, asset recovery and trust busting remedies in key offshore jurisdictions.

• Thanks to his native origins and having an extensive experience in representing Italian clients, Fabio is also the founder and Head of BSP’s Italian desk.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Membership

  • Luxembourg Arbitration Association (LAA)
  • Energy Law Group (ELG)
  • International Fraud Group (IFG)
  • A member of the Bar Council, 2004-05 and 2010-2013
  • International Bar Association (IBA)

Qualifications

  • Master of Comparative Jurisprudence (1992)
  • Laurea in Giurisprudenza (J.D.) (Bachelor in Jurisprudence) (1990)
  • Luxembourg Bar (1993)
  • New York Bar (1993)

Education

  • New York University School of Law, USA, (1992)
  • Università Statale di Milano, Italy, (1990)

1 Contributions by Fabio Trevisan

Enforcing international arbitral awards in Luxembourg: procedures, refusal grounds, appeals and review, effect of set-aside at seat, intra-EU constraints, and creditor remedies under the 2023 New Arbitration Law
PRACTICE NOTES
Enforcing international arbitral awards in Luxembourg: procedures, refusal grounds, appeals and review, effect of set-aside at seat, intra-EU constraints, and creditor remedies under the 2023 New Arbitration Law
Note: the Luxembourg cases referred to below are not all reported by LexisNexis®. Luxembourg provides a favourable climate for arbitration and is well regarded for the reliable execution of arbitral awards. The forum is notably mindful of the hierarchy of norms and places marked emphasis on international treaties. Before setting out the bases for declining exequatur, Article 1246 of the New Code of Civil Procedure (the 'NCCP') stipulates that the Court of Appeal may decline enforcement only 'subject to the provisions of international conventions'. Consistent with this, Luxembourg is party to a range of international treaties, agreements and conventions that bolster the effectiveness of enforcing arbitral awards. In particular, the Grand-Duchy is a signatory to the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, which operates on a reciprocity basis – namely, it applies solely to awards seated in another contracting State. Luxembourg is likewise party to the 1966 Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of...
Arbitration
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