Arbitrating Sustainability: ESG Disputes in International Arbitration between Europe and Latin America from an Italian point of view
The narrowing of the EU due diligence framework in 2026 is more likely to increase the role of arbitration in ESG matters than reduce it, because contracts are now left to do much of the work that legislation no longer does.
Guido Fierro
Guido Fierro graduated cum laude in law from the University of Naples Federico II, including an Erasmus exchange at Université Paris Descartes, and qualified as a lawyer in Italy in 2018. He is currently Counsel at the Italian law firm Solving, where he handles corporate, civil, private international, banking, IP and insolvency matters, with a focus on dispute resolution and restructuring. He completed a programme in international affairs at ISPI and in corporate law at Bocconi University, and attended courses in international arbitration at LSE and Roma Tre University (in cooperation with UNIDROIT). Guido is also a PhD candidate in commercial law at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Heidelberg and Université Toulouse Capitole, focusing on corporate ESG liability and climate litigation. He has published articles in leading law journals on corporate, insolvency and banking law. He is a native Italian speaker and fluent in English and French.
