Pierre-Philippe Barkats
Member
Email: pierrebarkats@aol.com

Practice Areas: Transactional Law; Industrial Real Estate Law; Project Finance; Banking Law; U.S. and French Corporate Law; Licenses; Trademark And Copyright Laws; Mergers and Acquisitions; Establishment of Corporations in Europe or the USA.

Admitted: 1976, Nice, France; 1978, Paris, France; 1984, District of Columbia

Law School: C.A.P.A., Licence en Droit, J.D. equivalent, Nice Law School, 1975; George Washington University National Law Center, Master of Comparative Law, 1977

College: Diplômé Sup. de Co., M.B.A. equivalent, 1975

Member: The French Bar (Paris), 1976-; The District of Columbia Bar; Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court; American Bar Association.

Biography: Author: "Who is Afraid of Judge Bork?", an article about the U.S. Supreme Court in L'Express, October 1, 1987. Former Prime Minister of France, Raymond Barre, after Barre's visit to Washington, D.C. (1977 Hatchet, GWU). Associate, Coudert Frères, 1978-1980. Of Counsel, Surrey & Morse, (now Jones Day), 1981-1982. Legal Attaché, French Embassy to the United States, 1980-1981.

Languages: French, German.

Reported Cases: Philips Beverage Company v. Belvédère, SA (France).

Transactions: MCI Communications Corporation/France Telecom, 1983-1985; Benetton, 1984; Revlon/Giacobetti, 1987; ITT/Radiall, 1990; New York Times-TimesFax/CHANEL, 1993; AT&T/United Airlines, American Airlines, TWA, 1995; Acquisition of major assets from Crédit Foncier de France, 1997-1998; Bouygues Telecom, 1999-2000; General Electric Capital/Tonet (Sweden), 2001; RTE-EdF Morgan Stanley, 2002-2003.

Born: Biskra, France, February 10, 1954

ISLN: 909254405