back

Prof. Ulisse Corea, Lawyer

Partner

Professor of Law on Civil Procedure in the Law Department of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
Lawyer with rights of audience in the Supreme Court and other higher courts.
Areas of activity: Civil law, commercial law, business and corporate litigation and arbitration.

Contacts

Email ucorea@marinilex.com
Since 2007, he has been a lawyer registered with the Rome Bar Association, with rights of audience in the Supreme Court since 1997.
He is an expert in business, contract, commercial, banking and bankruptcy litigation.
He represents and assists clients at every stage and level of civil and administrative litigation, before the Supreme Court and other higher courts, the EU Court of Justice and the ECHR.

Commercial, corporate, contract and procurement law.
He has significant experience in business and corporate litigation, specifically in directors’ liability, challenges to corporate resolutions and litigation concerning the transfer of shareholdings or the breach of shareholders’ agreements, in precautionary proceedings and in directors’ misconduct pursuant to Article 2409 of the Italian Civil Code. He defended numerous Italian and foreign companies in transnational commercial litigation, in precautionary proceedings linked to disputes pending in other countries, and for the enforcement in Italy of judgments and orders issued by foreign courts and foreign arbitration awards.
He also advised foreign clients and law firms, drafting legal opinions and expert reports, with a focus on civil procedure law and private international law and procedure matters within the context of litigation.
He regularly provides assistance in contractual matters, both in and out of court, and his clients include leading domestic and foreign companies, with a specific focus on the following sectors: works, supply and service contracts (public and private), energy, environment and waste, gaming, logistics, commercial and food distribution, air and rail transport, IT services, utilities, furniture, tourism and hoteliers, healthcare, boating, rights in rem, real estate and in antitrust and unfair competition disputes.

Insolvency proceedings and corporate crisis management
He acted as a trustee in bankruptcy and receiver of compositions with creditors and on 31 March 2023 he was entered in the register of persons appointed by the judicial authority to perform management and control functions in the procedures referred to in the crisis and insolvency code. He provides assistance in corporate crisis management and insolvency proceedings, from bankruptcy to compositions with creditors (both pre-bankruptcy and after bankruptcy), from debt restructuring agreements to certified reorganisation plans.
In more than twenty-five years of professional experience, he was engaged several times by bankruptcy receivers to bring various types of legal actions (claw-back actions, directors’ and auditors’ liability, actions for restitution of assets, precautionary seizure proceedings, etc.) or to defend them.
He has extensive experience in advising on companies subject to extraordinary administration procedures or Court-managed administration introduced pursuant to the Anti-Mafia Code, including relations with insolvency procedures governed by the Corporate Crisis Code, and on the effects and implications of anti-mafia disqualification sanctions, both under a civil law and administrative law perspective. It provides assistance both to the Administrations of companies or businesses subject to seizures ordered under the Anti-Mafia Code, and to individuals and businesses in the context of insolvency proceedings governed by the same Code to enforce rights in rem and credit rights against the companies affected by the aforementioned orders.

Banking and finance law
He assists domestic and foreign credit institutions, companies holding receivables and servicers, providing legal assistance both in and out of court, as well as in proceedings before the Banking and Financial Ombudsman (ABF) and the Arbitrator of Financial Disputes (ACF).
He assists entities, directors and auditors of commercial companies and banks in sanction proceedings before the Supervisory Authority (Bank of Italy, Consob) and in related judicial developments.
In 2017, the firm won the Legalcommunity Finance Awards for the year’s most important litigation.

Personality rights, intellectual and industrial property rights
He has extensive experience in actions for damages resulting from defamation by the press and through the media, as well as for the protection of copyright, trademarks and patents, know-how, and distinctive business signs.
He is legal advisor to a number of important Foundations in the field of medical scientific research.

Sports law
He has assisted important sports personalities in protecting their name and image and related rights of use. He has held corporate offices in clubs of the Serie A national football league. He is also a member of the Scientific Evaluation Committee of the Italian National Olympic Committee Sports Law Journal.

Arbitration
He has served as an arbitrator and chairman of arbitration tribunals, including in administered arbitrations, and has been defence counsel in several arbitration disputes. From 2016 to 2019, he was an arbitrator enrolled in the Register of the Arbitration Chamber of ANAC - the National Anti-Corruption Authority. From 2012 to 2014, he was an arbitrator enrolled in the Register of the Arbitration Chamber at the Authority for the Supervision of Public Contracts for Works, Services and Supplies, where he acted as chairman of arbitration tribunals.
He is an associate professor of law of civil procedure at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
He also teaches the Law of Civil Procedure Class at the Carabinieri Officers School - University of Rome Tor Vergata.
He is a lecturer in Law of Civil Procedure at the Department of Law, Economics and Sociology of the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, where he is a member of the Faculty Board of the PhD in Order of Law and European Order.
He is Co-Director of the Advanced Training Course on Corporate Crisis Management at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro.
He teaches the Advanced Training Course on Court-managed Administration of Assets and Companies at the LUISS School of Law.

He has also previously carried out the following academic activities:
Associate Professor of Law of Civil Procedure in the Department of Law, Economics and Sociology at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro.
Lecturer and coordinator of the Law of Civil Procedure Course at the School of Specialisation for Legal Professions of the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro.
Lecturer in the Law and Business PhD course at LUISS University of Rome and in the Law and Protection PhD course at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (2018-2019).
Lecturer in law of civil procedure and domestic and international arbitration law at the LUISS School of Specialisation for the Legal Professions (2007-2015).
Lecturer in law of civil procedure at the School of Specialisation for Legal Professions at the European University of Rome (2011-2014).
Lecturer in the Advanced Training Course “Over-indebtedness crisis managers” at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro (2020-2021).
Lecturer in the Advanced Training Course “The Protection of Workers in Insolvency Proceedings” at the University San Raffaele in Rome (2021).
He was a lecturer in Constitutional Justice at the School of Specialisation for Legal Professions at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (2015-2016) and in Administrative and Accounting Proceedings at the Master’s Degree Programme in Institutional Communication at the same University (2015-2018)
Member of the Research Group “The doctrine of case law” at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro.
Member of the evaluation committee of the series Rassegna dell’esecuzione forzata (Enforcement Proceedings Review), ESI, Naples, where he is in charge of the observatory on procedures for the discipline of corporate crisis and insolvency.
Member of the editorial board of the journal Judicium, Pacini Editore, Pisa.
Member of the scientific committee of the journal Il diritto processuale civile italiano e comparato (Italian and Comparative Law on Civil Procedure).
Member of the evaluation committee of the Italian National Olympic Committee Sports Law Journal.
He has lectured at numerous conferences organised by the Scuola Superiore della Magistratura.

He is a member of the Italian Association of civil trial scholars.

He was Director of Research for the University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro for the StartUPP – Models Project, systems and competences for the implementation of the Support Office for the Judicial System, prepared by the University of Bari Aldo Moro, as leader, and the University of Calabria, the University of Catanzaro Magna Græcia, the University of Foggia, the University of Reggio Calabria “Mediterranea”, the University of Salento, the University of Salerno, as partners, in response to the Call for the financing of direct actions under Axis I, Specific Objective 1.4, Action 1.4.1 of the NOP Governance “Actions for the improvement of efficiency and performance of the Judicial Offices through technological innovation, organisational support to the computerisation of the Judicial Offices, dissemination of specific innovations and support to the activation of change management actions”, published by the Ministry of Justice - Directorate General for the Coordination of Cohesion Policies (until July 2022)

He has been a member of committees for recruitment of researchers and research fellows.

He is a member of the Scientific Committee of INAG - Istituto Nazionale Amministratori Giudiziari (National Institute of Court-Appointed Administrators).

He was a member of the LUISS Alumni Association Council (2014-2018).

Since 2020, he has been the head of research of the Mediation Body of the Catanzaro Bar Association.

Books
“Processo civile e obbligazioni solidali”, Pacini, Pisa, 2018, 235;
“Obbligazioni solidali e giusto processo”, ESI, Napoli, 2012, 136;
“La sospensione delle deliberazioni societarie nel sistema della tutela giurisdizionale”, Giappichelli, Torino, 2008, XIII, 347;

Reviews
Recensione a S. Mazzamuto, Esecuzione forzata, Bologna-Roma, 2020, in Rassegna esecuzione forzata, 2021, 1103 ss.
Recensione a A.M. Soldi, Manuale dell’esecuzione forzata, Padova, 2019, in Rassegna dell’esecuzione forzata, 2020, 998.

Other publications on civil procedure and arbitration
• Effetti delle sentenze di annullamento non passate in giudicato e doveri degli amministratori, in Le Società, 2022, 353-371.
• Lineamenti processuali della nuova azione di classe, in Judicium, 2021, 425-460 (con M.L. Guarnieri)
• Condanna implicita e provvisoria esecutività della sentenza di scioglimento della comunione, in Rassegna esecuzione forzata, 2021, 893 ss.
• La nuova class action al debutto: uno sguardo d’insieme (con M.L. Guarnieri), in www.judicium.it, 18.6.2021.
• A più voci sul regime della sentenza che rigetta l’opposizione a decreto ingiuntivo, già provvisoriamente esecutivo ex art. 642 o 648 c.p.c., e della relativa inibitoria, in Rassegna esecuzione forzata, 2021, 435 ss. (con G. Miccolis, B. Capponi, M. Farina, A. Tedoldi, C. Delle Donne);
• I procedimenti collettivi. L’azione di classe e l’azione inibitoria collettiva (con M.L. Guarnieri), in Saggi di diritto dei consumi, Torino, 2021, 311 (a cura di A. Catricalà e M.P. Pignalosa).
• Sulla nozione di provvedimento cautelare anticipatorio, in Judicium, 2020, 407-424.
• Il diritto di difesa e di accesso alla giustizia civile ai tempi (e oltre) l’emergenza sanitaria, in www.judicium.it, 4.6.2020, nonché in Marini F.S., Scaccia G. (a cura di), L’impatto del Covid-19 sull’ordinamento italiano: le questioni relative alla disciplina dell’emergenza, a cura di F.S. Marini e G. Scaccia, Napoli, 2020, 265-277.
• La tutela cautelare anticipatoria secondo la Cassazione: cala il sipario sul référé all’italiana, in www.judicium.it, 11.5.2020.
• Per la chiarezza di idee in tema di effetti della sospensione e della sentenza di annullamento di delibere assembleari, in Judicium, 1/2020, 123-158.
• Ancora sulla sospensione delle delibere “eseguite”, in www.judicium.it, febbraio 2020.
• Clausole di deroga alla competenza territoriale, in Le clausole negoziali, II, a cura di M. Confortini, Torino, 2019, 182 ss.;
• Forma e sostanza della pronuncia della Corte costituzionale sul caso Cappato, in Rivista di diritto processuale, 2019/3, 821 ss.;
• La pronuncia interlocutoria della Corte costituzionale sul caso Cappato, tra “forma” (di ordinanza) e “sostanza” (di sentenza), in Il caso Cappato: riflessioni a margine dell’ordinanza della Corte costituzionale n. 207 del 2018, a cura di Francesco Saverio Marini e Cristiano Cupelli, ESI, Napoli, 2019.
• Rito monitorio e crediti professionali, in Tutela giurisdizionale e giusto processo, Scritti in memoria di Franco Cipriani, Napoli, 2020, 1131-1138.
• Sull'astreinte accessoria a provvedimenti cautelari, in Judicium, 3/2018, 377 ss.
• L'aggiudicatario "estorsore", in Rivista dell'esecuzione forzata, 2018, 153 ss.
• Gli atti di parte, in Diritto processuale amministrativo, a cura di F.S. Marini e A. Storto, La Tribuna, Piacenza, 2018;
• Le parti e i difensori, in Diritto processuale amministrativo, a cura di F.S. Marini e A. Storto, La Tribuna, Piacenza, 2018;
• L'opposizione di terzo, in Diritto processuale amministrativo, a cura di F.S. Marini e A. Storto, La Tribuna, Piacenza, 2018;
• La revocazione, in Diritto processuale amministrativo, a cura di F.S. Marini e A. Storto, La Tribuna, Piacenza, 2018;
• Il ricorso per cassazione, in Diritto processuale amministrativo, a cura di F.S. Marini e A. Storto, La Tribuna, Piacenza, 2018;
• Il rito abbreviato per determinate materie. Il rito per le procedure di affidamento degli appalti, in Diritto processuale amministrativo, a cura di F.S. Marini e A. Storto, La Tribuna, Piacenza, 2018.
• I profili processuali della nuova legge sulla responsabilità medica: note a prima lettura, in www.judicium.it, 30.6.2017.
• Disorientamenti in materia di esecuzione delle misure coercitive indirette ex art. 614 bis c.p.c.: al creditore non basta il titolo esecutivo e l’autoliquidazione nel precetto delle somme dovute ma deve previamente introdurre un giudizio di cognizione per la relativa quantificazione, in www.judicium.it, 2.5.2017.
• Interesse ad agire del socio, domande nuove ed effetti della sentenza sulla validità di delibere successive nei giudizi di impugnazione di delibere assembleari, in www.judicium.it, 26.4.2017.
• Il giudicato come limite alle sentenze della Corte costituzionale e delle Corti europee, (testo rielaborato dell'Intervento al XXX Convegno Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana fra gli studiosi del processo civile in Cagliari, 2 e 3 ottobre 2015, sul tema La crisi del giudicato), in Judicium, 2017, 37 ss., nonché in AA.VV., La crisi del giudicato, Atti del XXX Convegno Nazionale, Bologna, 2017, 231 ss.
• Forme di autocomposizione delle liti (transazione), forme di eterocomposizione delle liti (arbitrato) e la via intermedia (conciliazione), in Rapporto sui conflitti e sulla conciliazione 2015, - Quaderni dell'Istituto Regionale di Studi Giuridici del Lazio Arturo Carlo Jemolo, Roma, 2016, con prefazione del Presidente del Tribunale di Roma Mario Bresciano.
• Limiti della tutela d'urgenza anticipatoria di sentenze dichiarative e costitutive, in Corriere giuridico, 2015, 546 ss.
• L'accesso all'appello nel rito del lavoro, in Giusto processo civile, 2/2015, 407-439.
• Commento all’art. 2378 c.c., in Commentario al codice civile, a cura di E. Gabrielli, UTET, Torino, 2014, 1765.
• Verso la provvisoria efficacia della sentenza non passata in giudicato?, in Rivista dell'esecuzione forzata, 2014, 481 ss., nonché in Il processo esecutivo. Liber amicorum Romano Vaccarella, 2014.
• La riforma dell'appello nel processo del lavoro, in www.judicium.it, 2014.
• Commento agli articoli da 422 a 441, in Commentario al codice di procedura civile, a cura di Vaccarella, Consolo, Sassani, Comoglio, UTET, Torino, V, 2013.
• Revocabilità e reclamabilità dell’ordinanza inibitoria dei lodi arbitrali, in Rivista dell’esecuzione forzata, 2012, 249 ss.
• Profili della tutela possessoria, in Rassegna di diritto civile, 2012, 14-42.
• Gli organismi di conciliazione, in Mediazione e conciliazione nel nuovo processo civile, Commento al d.lgs. n. 28 del 2010 (a cura di B. Sassani e F. Santagada), Roma, 2011 (II ed.), aggiornata con il D.M. 18 ottobre 2010, 180.
• Note in tema di limiti soggettivi della cosa giudicata e regresso del fideiussore, in Rivista dell’esecuzione forzata, 2010, 748, ss.
• Gli organismi di conciliazione, in Mediazione e conciliazione nel nuovo processo civile, Commento al d.lgs. n. 28 del 2010 (a cura di B. Sassani e F. Santagada), Roma, 2010 (I ed).
• Codice CONI di comportamento sportivo e Garante, in Rassegna di diritto ed economia dello sport, Napoli, 2010, 1 e ss.
• Commento agli artt. da 422 a 447 c.p.c., in Codice di procedura civile ipertestuale, a cura di L.P. Comoglio e R. Vaccarella, UTET, Torino, 2010 (III ed.), 2008 (II ed.), 2006 (I ed.).
• Questioni di diritto intertemporale nei rapporti tra arbitro e giudice, in Rivista dell’arbitrato, Milano, 2009, 465 e ss.
• Commento all’art. 818 c.p.c. (Arbitrato – Provvedimenti cautelari), in Commentario alle riforme del processo civile, III/2, a cura di A. Briguglio e B. Capponi, Cedam, Padova, 2009, 838 ss.
• Sospensione di delibere di fusione ed effettività della tutela, in Corriere giuridico, 2008, 1425 ss.
• L’esperimento del giudizio cautelare modifica la disciplina della competenza per il giudizio di merito (e cancella l’art. 39 u. c. c.p.c.): una inaccettabile conclusione della Corte Suprema, in Rivista di diritto processuale, 2008, 850 ss.
• Note in tema di tutela impugnatoria e tutela cautelare ante causam (a proposito dell’art. 2378 c.c. e dell’art. 700 c.p.c.), in Il giusto processo civile, 2008, 527 ss.
• Autonomia funzionale della tutela cautelare anticipatoria, in Rivista di diritto processuale, 2006, 1251 ss.
• Profili del provvedimento cautelare di sospensione delle deliberazioni societarie, in Rivista di diritto commerciale, 2006, 35 ss.
• Commento agli artt. da 295 a 298 e da 409 a 447bis c.p.c., in Codice di procedura civile commentato – Appendice di aggiornamento, a cura di R. Vaccarella e G. Verde, UTET, Torino, 2001.
• La tutela dei diritti soggettivi e degli interessi legittimi nel pubblico impiego privatizzato, in Giustizia civile, 2000, I, 2955.
• Ancora in tema di nozione di “consumatore” e contratti a scopi professionali: un intervento chiarificatore, in Giustizia civile, 2000, I, 2119.
• Iniziativa dello straniero davanti al giudice italiano ed accettazione tacita della giurisdizione, in Giustizia civile, 1999, I, 2790.
• Espropriazione di crediti presso terzi e tutela del terzo contitolare del credito pignorato, in Giustizia civile, 1999, I, 2421.
• Regime impugnatorio e principio dell’apparenza nel processo esecutivo, in Giustizia civile, 1999, I, 1434.
• Sulla nozione di consumatore: il problema dei contratti stipulati a scopi professionali, in Giustizia civile, 1999, I, 7.
• Una legitimatio minor per il creditore istante il fallimento, in mancanza di sua riassunzione del procedimento davanti al giudice competente, in Giustizia civile, 1998, I, 2249.
• Note in tema di pregiudiziale comunitaria di validità e tutela cautelare, in Giustizia civile, 1998, I, 2065.