Profile

Practice Areas

• Aviation and Aerospace
• Aircraft Accidents
• Aircraft Finance
• International Trade
• International Investments
• Corporate Law
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Trademarks
• Commercial Law
• Negotiation and Drafting of Commercial Transactions
• Distributorship
• Complex Litigation
• International Arbitration
• Industrial Liability and insurance
• Criminal Law
• Criminal Business Law
• Oil and Gas

Bars of admission

• 1981 --, Paris, Avocat à la Cour
• 1984 --, New York, Attorney at Law

Other experiences

• Specialized educator, French Ministry of Justice (1972-1976)
• Lawyer for the French Government (1976-1978)

Education

• University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
   (Masters of Law, 1979; D.E.A. in Commercial, Corporate and Tax Law, 1980)
• Institute of Criminology of Paris
   (Certificate of Criminology, 1980; Certificate of Criminal Sciences, 1980)
• Institute of International and Comparative Law, University of San Diego, School of Law, Paris Center (1980)
• Institute of Comparative Law of Paris University (1982)

Member

• Bar of the Court of Appeals of Paris
(Certified as a Specialist of Commercial Law and the Law of International Relations)
• New York Bar
• International Bar Association
• Société Francaise de Droit Aérien et Spatial
(French Society of Air and Space Law)

Distinctions and Faculty

• New York University School of Law, Visiting Scholar, International Law, LL.M. Division (1980-1981), grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Former Lecturer, Business, Corporate and Bankruptcy Law, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Publications

• Co-author, "Aircraft Finance, Registration, Security and Enforcement" and "Aircraft Liens and Detention Rights", Thomson - Sweet & Maxwell, London.

Languages

French and English

Born

Courbevoie, France, June 19, 1951