Laurent Cohen-Tanugi
Lecturer in Law
Biography
LAURENT COHEN-TANUGI
20, Boulevard des Invalides
75007 Paris
LAURENT.COHEN-TANUGI@COHEN-TANUGI.COM
+33 6 89 665 182
Born February 8, 1957 in Tunis (Tunisia)
CAREER
- Founder and managing partner, Law offices of Laurent Cohen-Tanugi (2008-)
- Chairman of French governmental task force on Europe in the global economy (2007-2008) sponsored by Economy and Finance Minister Christine Lagarde
- Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (2005-2007)
- Senior Vice-President and General Counsel, Member of the Executive Committee of the Sanofi-Synthelabo pharmaceutical group (2004)
- Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton (1991-2003)
Member of the Paris and New York Bars (1983)
FCPA Independent Corporate Monitor appointed by the United States Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission (2011-)
Member of the French National Committee of the ICC International Court of Arbitration
EDUCATION
- LL.M., Harvard Law School (1982)
- J.D and LL.M in international and Anglo-American business law, University Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne Law School (1981)
- Degree in political science, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (1980)
- Agrégation in modern French literature (1979)
- Ecole Normale Supérieure (1976-1981)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
- Author, columnist and lecturer
- Visiting professor on Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions, Harvard Law School (2009), HEC (2011-12), Stanford Law School (2012; 2013)
- Member, French Academy of Technologies
- Member of the Policy Advisory Council of the French-American Foundation
- Member of the Advisory Council of the Aspen Institute-France
- Member of French governmental advisory commissions on the intangible economy (2006) and on judicial reform (1997)