Career Biography

Pietro is the Head of Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Affairs at Eni Plenitude S.p.A. Società Benefit, a company of Eni, one of the largest integrated energy companies in the world.

Before joining Eni, Pietro spent eighteen years with Saipem, one of the largest companies in Italy and the world’s leading and most international contractor in the oil and gas industry. In particular, between 2002 and 2013, Pietro was the General Counsel of Saipem.

In these roles, Pietro has been in charge of legal departments with lawyers predominantly based in Milan, Rome, Paris, Brussels, London, UAE, Singapore, and Houston.

Pietro has covered and been responsible for a wide cross-section of legal activity, including compliance, litigation and arbitration, contract negotiation, contract administration, and the full range of corporate legal activities.

He has been very active in promoting Corporate Social Responsibility and ESG criteria in the legal profession, particularly by requiring that all law firms working with Plenitude commit to sustainability initiatives.

He has been a member of the UNIDROIT Working Group on International Long-Term Contracts and has participated in the ICC Commission on Arbitration, Working Group on the Role of In-House Counsel in Dispute Resolution.

Pietro lectures in International Business Contract Law at the Faculty of Law of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and the master’s in business law of LUISS in Rome. He is also the director of several masterclasses held in Dhaka, Dubai, and Istanbul.