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)