Laurent Cohen-Tanugi Law offices of Laurent Cohen-Tanugi 20, Boulevard des Invalides 75007 Paris laurent.cohen-tanugi@cohen-tanugi.com Managing partner, Law offices of Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Member of the Paris and New York Bars Laurent Cohen-Tanugi is a Paris-based international lawyer, specializing in cross-border mergers and acquisitions and international arbitration. He was recently appointed by the French government to lead a task force on the future of the European Union's Lisbon Strategy, ahead of the upcoming French Presidency of the EU. He was previously a partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (2005-2007), Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Sanofi-Synthélabo, a European pharmaceutical group (2004), and a partner of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton (1991-2003). He is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds an agrégation in French literature from the University of Paris and a degree from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris. He graduated from the University of Paris Law School in 1981 and received an LL.M. degree from the Harvard Law School in 1982. Mr. Cohen-Tanugi is the author of numerous books, including Le Droit sans l'Etat (PUF, 1985), a comparative essay on the French and American legal and political traditions, prefaced by Professor Stanley Hoffmann of Harvard University ; La Métamorphose de la Démocratie (Odile Jacob, 1989), an essay on the changes affecting the French and European democratic cultures (...)