Professor Renato Nazzini KC (Hon), formerly a partner of LMS’s London office and a leading academic at King’s College London, will join Monckton Chambers as a member from the end of April.
The dual-qualified solicitor and Italian advocate has transferred to the Bar to join one of London’s leading competition law sets, adding his own antitrust experience, as well as his skills as an arbitrator and counsel to the set’s offering.
He leaves LMS after 14 years, having previously been of counsel at BonelliErede. He also served for seven years as deputy director of the UK’s Legal and Policy Department at the OFT, a predecessor of the Competition and Markets Authority.
He is an experienced arbitrator and counsel in international arbitration, with expertise across various industries, including construction, oil and gas, infrastructure, IT, digital sectors, pharmaceuticals and consumer goods.
Nazzini has gained experience across Europe, Africa, Asia and the US as counsel, arbitrator (including roles as tribunal president, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator) and expert witness. He serves on the ICC Arbitration and ADR Commission in Italy, participates in the ICC Task Force on Addressing Corruption in International Arbitration, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He is well known in London for his academic work as a professor and director of the highly regarded Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at King’s College. Previously, he was a professor of competition law and arbitration at the University of Southampton and a senior research fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He holds two doctorates, from London and Milan, respectively.
He was appointed as an honorary King’s Counsel in 2025 for that work and his contributions to competition law – in particular private enforcement and abuse of dominance – and to arbitration and dispute resolution. He has published 10 books and more than 100 articles and book chapters, as well as influential empirical reports on UK statutory adjudication and the global practice of dispute boards.
Nazzini is not the only academic to combine practices at Monckton; international lawyer, Professor Holger Hestermeyer, recently addressed the House of Lords International Agreements Committee on trade law issues, while former EU judge and justice minister, Lord Bellamy KC, took up an honorary professorial position at University College, London, alongside his busy practice as an arbitrator.
Monckton has seen its members active across the Competition Appeal Tribunal and beyond this year, most notably in the £205m Cardiff Airport subsidy control appeal before the CAT in which it fielded four counsel and two silks – George Peretz KC and Azeem Suterwalla KC.
The set also mourned the loss of Sir Jeremy Lever CMG KC in February, while former ECJ judge, Sir Christopher Vadja, was knighted in the January New Year Honours list.
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