Martina Lucenti

Martina assists Italian and foreign clients in commercial and corporate disputes, post-M&A litigation, directors and officers’ liability suits,  insolvency litigation. She has also assisted companies in civil actions for vicarious liability brought before criminal courts.

Martina has gained broad industry experience in Life Sciences & Healthcare litigation, representing pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies, medical devices manufacturers, hospitals and clinics in disputes arising out of R&D, manufacturing, license, supply, marketing and distribution agreements and in product liability cases.

Beyond her practice as counsel, she regularly serves as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, and presiding arbitrator in proceedings administered by the Milan Chamber of Arbitration and in ad hoc arbitration.

She is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), ArbitralWomen, Arbit – Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR, and of the Women’s White Collar Defence Association (WWCDA).

She is recognized by the Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) in the rankings Arbitration Future Leaders – Partners 2025 and Italy – Arbitration 2025, where she is listed as “Recommended”.

Before joining Portolano Cavallo, Martina worked for 12 years in the Litigation and Arbitration Department of BonelliErede, and previously at De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani.

In 2005, she obtained a Diploma in English Commercial Law from the College of Law of London. In 2008, she qualified as Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales (non-practising).

Martina graduated summa cum laude from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan in 2000. She was admitted to the Italian Bar in 2003.

Foreign languages: English

Martina Lucenti is member no. 2014000669 of the Milan Bar Association, and she is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Cassation.