Taddeo Ferraro

Taddeo Ferraro

Senior Associate

Email

taddeo.ferraro@aoshearman.com

Phone

+48 22 820 6173

Offices

Warsaw

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Taddeo represents clients before courts and arbitral tribunals in international and domestic disputes involving project finance, loan facilities, international trade law, securities, antitrust, and post-M&A issues.

He advises commercial and investment banks, investment funds, government agencies, business associations, and public-listed and other companies with operations in finance, trade, insurance, technology, manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure.

As a regular contributor to law journals and books, Taddeo publishes opinions on commercial and financial law, litigation, and arbitration. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • An American global corporation on a USD100m multi-faceted international trade finance dispute spanning across a wide range of jurisdictions and involving multiple parties.
  • An export credit agency on a EUR 20m international arbitration regarding an export credit insurance provided in the context on an international project finance with parties from European and APAC jurisdictions.
  • An international infrastructure asset manager on a dispute strategy and negotiations concerning the construction of several windfarms across Poland with a total value of EUR40m.
  • A global investment bank on a number of litigation proceedings involving the bank’s prospectus liability in relation to one of the most extensive corporate bond issuance programmes in Poland.
  • A major business association on an antitrust dispute strategy against the largest Polish sports federation and one of the leading sports operators. The precedential nature of the dispute has gained industry-wide attention, triggering an intervention by the Polish competition watchdog, who sided with the association’s members.

Pro bono

  • Building a long-lasting relationship and regularly co-launching projects with a Polish charity whose mission is to counter the social exclusion of children and provide them with a sense of security and confidence in their potential.
  • Conducting seminars for law students interested in pursuing careers in international finance and commercial law.

Published Work

  • Subchapter “Poland” in: “Chapter 7. Non-US Class Actions” in: Eisenberg J.N. (ed.) (2023) “Litigating Securities Class Actions”, New York: LexisNexis
  • Ferraro T., Kochaniec-Kaczy?ska T., Neumann M. (2022) “The Federation might lose millions” (the original title: “Dojna krowa PZPN idzie na rze?. Zwi?zek mo?e straci? miliony”), Warsaw: Rzeczpospolita
  • Ferraro T. (2021) “Factors affecting the extent of a guarantor’s defences under a first demand bank guarantee” (the original title: Czynniki wp?ywaj?ce na zakres zarzutów gwaranta w ramach gwarancji bankowej na pierwsze ??danie”), Warsaw: Monitor Prawa Bankowego
  • Ferraro T. (2021) “Arbitration clause and a debtor's statement on submission to execution in bank financing” (the original title: “Klauzula arbitra?owa i notarialne o?wiadczenie d?u?nika o poddaniu si? egzekucji w finansowaniu bankowym”), Warsaw: Monitor Prawa Bankowego
  • Ferraro T. (2020) “The difference between currencies of a granted and disbursed loan” (the original title: “Ró?nica w walutach kredytu udzielonego i wyp?aconego”), Warsaw: Monitor Prawa Bankowego

Qualifications

Admissions

Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law, 2020 (Attorney-at-law)

Academic

PhD studies, Law, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2022

MA, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, 2016

Languages

English, Italian, Polish
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.