Yesterday, I showed what happened on October 16, 2019.
The Rome Court of Appeal rejected Eni’s appeal in the first lawsuit brought against me and the Brazilian Institute of Business Ethics (Instituto Brasileiro de Ética nos Negócios).
🔹 First instance: lawsuit rejected.
🔹 Second instance: Eni’s appeal rejected.
Just 13 days later, something particularly significant happened.
📌 October 29, 2019.
The word “mediation” reappeared in the history of the Flinto Case.
But this time, it was not during a Shareholders’ Meeting.
It was within the Italian judicial system itself.
On that day, a hearing was held before Judge Antonella Di Tullio of the Ordinary Court of Rome, in the context of the second lawsuit brought against me.
Represented in the proceedings were Eni S.p.A., Marco Petracchini (then-Chief Audit Officer), Massimo Mantovani (then-Chief Legal Officer), Douglas Linares Flinto, and the Brazilian Institute of Business Ethics.
The Judge then recorded:
🔹 “Having noted that mediation proceedings had not been initiated, the Judge invites the parties to proceed with mediation”.
The hearing was adjourned to June 23, 2020.
For the second time in less than two years, therefore, a concrete opportunity emerged to bring the parties to the mediation table.
The first had arisen on May 10, 2018, during Eni’s Annual General Meeting.
Critical shareholder Mauro Meggiolaro, representing Fondazione Finanza Etica, publicly offered to mediate the conflict.
The meeting never took place due to a lack of interest from the Italian oil giant.
Now it was different.
📌 The possibility of mediation was emerging within the judicial proceedings themselves.
After years of letters, complaints and lawsuits, there was once again an opportunity to try another path:
🔹 Bring the parties face to face.
🔹 Bring the different versions face to face.
🔹 Bring the documents face to face.
And this time, there is another document.
A document recording what happened when the mediation proceedings actually reached the Organismo di Mediazione Forense di Roma - the Rome Bar Association Mediation Body.
📌 July 1, 2020.
The document expressly states:
🔴 “DELEGATA DAL GIUDICE” — “COURT-REFERRED MEDIATION”.
What happened during that mediation?
Was there a willingness to discuss the Flinto Case and seek a solution?
That will be another document in this story.
❎ Learn more:
1️⃣ Minutes of the hearing before the Ordinary Court of Rome (Oct 29, 2019):
🔹 original
🔹 English
2️⃣ Memorial (1999–2025)
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