Laurent COHEN-TANUGI
Founder and Managing Partner
Career
- 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 Bar (1991)
- Member of the New York Bar (1983)
- FCPA Independent Corporate Monitor appointed by the United States Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission (2011-2014)
- 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 at Harvard Law School (2009), HEC (2011), Sciences-Po Paris (2011) and Stanford Law School (2012 - 2016)
- Member, French Academy of Technologies
- Co-Founder and Vice President, Institute Jacques Delors-Notre Europe
- Member of the Policy Advisory Council of the French-American Foundation
- Member of the Board of Aspen Institute-France
- Member of French governmental advisory commissions on the intangible economy (2006) and on judicial reform (1997)
Books
English
- The Shape of the World to Come, Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century (Columbia University Press, 2008)
- Beyond Lisbon: A European Strategy for Globalization (Peter Lang, 2008)
- An Alliance at Risk, The United States and Europe After September 11 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)
French
- Résistances – La démocratie à l’épreuve (Editions de L'Observatoire, 2018)
- « What’s wrong with France? » (Grasset, 2015)
- Quand l’Europe s’éveillera (Grasset, 2011)
- Euromonde 2015: Une stratégie européenne pour la mondialisation (Odile Jacob / La Documentation Française, 2008)
- Guerre ou paix, essai sur le monde de demain (Grasset, 2007)
- Les Sentinelles de la liberté, l’Europe et l’Amérique au seuil du XXI siècle (Odile Jacob, 2003)
- Le Dictionnaire du Web (en collaboration avec Francis Balle) (Dalloz, 2001)
- Le Nouvel ordre numérique (Odile Jacob, 1999)
- Le Choix de l’Europe (Fayard, 1995)
- L’Europe en danger (Fayard, 1992)
- La Métamorphose de la démocratie (Odile Jacob, 1989)
- Le Droit sans l’État, sur la démocratie en France et en Amérique (PUF,1985 réed. Quadrige, 2007), préface by Prof. S. Hoffmann
Articles
- “La France et la lutte contre la corruption dans les affaires internationales : vers un changement de paradigme ?” (En Temps Réel, 2016)
- “The Extraterritorial Application of American Law: Myths and Realities” [« L’application extraterritoriale du droit américain, fer de lance de la régulation économique internationale ? »] (En Temps Réel, 2014). To read the original French article, click here.
- “Deferred Prosecution Agreements in the French Environment" ["Le Deferred prosecution agreement américain - Un instrument de lutte efficace contre la délinquance économique internationale”] (La Semaine juridique n°38, 2013, co-authored by Emmanuel Breen). To read the full article in French, click here.
- “Les juridictions américaines face aux lois étrangères interdisant la communication de renseignements économiques” (Revue critique de droit international privé, 1983).