important practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, internatinoal arbitration, business litigation and international personal law.

Graduate of the Faculte de Droit, Universite d'Orleans, France; the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France; Columbia University School of Law; University of Pennsylvania School of Law; former President of the Atlanta Chapter of the French-American Chamber of Commerce; Appointed Foreign Trade Advisor to the French Government (Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur de la France).  former Chair of the International Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia and currently member of its executive committee; Admitted in the states of New York and Georgia; practiced as Avocat in Paris, France.