Luciano Panzani - Tribunale di Torino

Luciano Panzani is born in Torino, Italy. He is President of the First Instance Court of Torino (Tribunale di Torino) from September 2009. He was previously judge of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Cassazione (the Italian Supreme Court) where mainly in commercial and bankruptcy cases. Before he was President of the Tribunal of Alba (Italy) and bankruptcy judge of the Tribunal of Torino for many years.
Judge Panzani is expert in commercial and company and civil process law. He served for more than twenty years as judge in commercial and civil cases. He is a senior expert in bankruptcy law. Often called as teacher in advanced specialisation stages of judges organised by Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura. Contributor of many law Italian reviews.
He has been member of the Committee for the reform of the bankruptcy law by the Italian Ministry of Justice. Teacher of commercial law by Scuola di Amministrazione aziendale - University of Turin - Italy. Former temporary professor by Faculty of Economy - University of Turin. Scientific Director of the Italian bankruptcy review on Internet www.fallimentonline.it. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian bankruptcy review “Il Fallimento” published by IPSOA. Member of the International Insolvency Institute, of Insol Europe; Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

In the 1995 judge Panzani was called by the Supreme Court of Nicaragua and United Nations Organisation ( project PRO.DE.RE) as teacher for the local Judges School. In the February and March 2002 he was lecturer like west-european senior expert in the seminar devoted to problems of consideration of disputes involving foreign entities and in the seminar devoted to banking law, in Moscow, for the Phare Tacis project “Legal Protection for Economic Operators”. From 2003 to 2005judge Panzani has been invited by the World Bank to the meetings and seminars of the Insolvency Judges Forum held in Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Washington. In 2009 he participated to the World Bank Working Group on Insolvency of Non-Bank Financial Institutions (Jan 12-13, 2009 Washington, DC).
He has been speaker in the meetings of N.C.B.J. in Nashville, San Francisco, Scottsdale. In 2008 he was speaker in the Bankruptcy Law Second National Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico organised by the IFECOM in coordination with the Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Concursal and the Instituto de la Judicatura, Escuela Judicial.