Dr Matteo Bruno Fontana, MJur, advises and represents clients in state courts and arbitral tribunals. His practice covers the whole breadth of commercial disputes. Matteo is a qualified commercial mediator and regularly authors publications in the areas of conflicts of law as well as German, European, and international jurisdiction and procedural law.
- Advising and representing a credit institution in connection with civil recourse claims arising from cum/ex matters, , recourse volume app. EUR 400m.
Since 2026
Kröck Dispute Resolution, Associate
2025 – 2026
Christ Church, University of Oxford, Magister Juris degree, graduated with Distinction
2025
Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Doctorate in law with dissertation on German and European procedural law, awarded the Faculty Prize 2026
2022 – 2025
LMU Munich, Research Assistant at the Chair of Private Law, Commercial and Corporate Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law (Prof. Peter Kindler)
2017 – 2024
Law degree from LMU Munich and subsequent legal clerkship with placements at leading German and international law firms in Munich and Milan (dispute resolution and corporate/M&A practice groups)
- German
- English
- Italian
- Disclosure Duties in European Private Law, doctoral thesis, Tübingen 2026
- Disclosure Duties in European Private Law, casenote on ECJ, Judgment of 29 January 2026 – C-286/24 – Meliá Hotels, EuZW 2026, p. 935
- Costs in Case of Partial Discontinuance of Claim, JR 2026, p. 121
- Suspension of the Limitation Period by European Collective Redress Actions after the Implementation of the Collective Actions Directive, ZEuP 2025, p. 815
- The Dieselgate Saga in Germany and Italy: New Perspectives on Sustainability, Liability, and Environmental Protection in Consumer Law, Bologna 2025 (co-editor with Peter Kindler, Francesca Bertelli, and David Paulus)
- Unauthorized Representation From the Perspective of the Law of Damages, NJW 2025, p. 857
- Freedom through Compensation? The Quantification of Damages in Diesel Proceedings before the Federal Court of Justice, ZIP 2024, p. 1940
- Schwerpunktbereichsklausur – IPR und Brüssel Ia-VO: Keine einfache Ehe, JuS 2024, p. 671 (original exam paper in LMU Munich’s conflicts of law module, written and developed with Peter Kindler)
- On the Obligation to be Represented by Counsel in German civil procedure, JA 2023, p. 409
- Passing of Risk in case of Contactless Delivery of Consumer Goods, JuS 2023, p. 103
- Financial Market Disputes in International Procedural Law, RIW 2021, p. 285
- German Institution of Arbitration (DIS / DIS40)
- German-Italian Lawyers Association (DIJV)