White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Philippe C. Sarrailhé

Practice Experience

Philippe Sarrailhé's main areas of practice are international arbitration, mergers and acquisitions, LBOs, and securities. He has considerable experience in commercial and financial matters generally.

Philippe is regularly involved as counsel on behalf of substantial French and other European parties in international arbitrations governed by French law or other laws based on the French legal system. He is also a fluent Spanish speaker, having lived in Latin America, and has been involved in several ICSID and ICC arbitrations with Latin American parties, particularly from Venezuela and Argentina.

On the non-contentious side, Philippe has represented top French and foreign clients in major cross-border private and public M&A transactions involving banking institutions and automotive, space, aeronautical, chemical, pharmaceutical, food and other industrial companies.

He has advised on leveraged buyout transactions, acting for leading U.S., U.K. and Dutch private equity houses, as well as venture capital transactions. He also has advised on the issuance of various types of equity and debt instruments as well as the offering, listing and placement thereof.

Philippe has experience in IPOs as well as structured finance, having advised several banks in relation to statutory and offshore securitization schemes.

Philippe has lectured on European commercial law and international business transactions at the University of Paris Law School.

Prior to joining White & Case, Philippe was a partner with a leading French law firm and was the managing partner in the New York office of that firm from 1991 to 1994.

Bars and Courts
Paris Bar, 1972
New York State Bar, 1994

Education
LLM, Business Law, University of Paris Law School, 1980
LLM, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1978
LLM, International Law, University of Paris Law School, 1976
JD, University of Paris Law School, 1972
Institut d'Etudes Judiciaires, 1972

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
New York City Bar
Comité Français d'Arbitrage

Awards and Recognition
IFLR (Euromoney Legal Media Group - Expert Guides), Mergers and Acquisition Lawyers, June 2001
European Legal Experts, 2002
Who's Who Legal, 2002
Chambers Global, Leading Lawyers Corporate/M&A

Publications
Author, "L'impartialité et l'indépendance de l'arbitre devant les juges anglais," Revue de l'Arbitrage, No. 1, 2001
Author of chapter "France" in The ABA Guide to International Business Negotiations, editions released 1994-2000
Co-author, Les Joint-Ventures Franco-Américaines - FEC/Larcier, 1994
Author of chapter "France" in Regulations of Foreign Banks (France), 1995
Author of chapter "France" in Securities Transactions in Europe (France), CCH, 1996
Author of chapter "France" in Practitioner's Guide to the Acquisition of Private Companies in the European Union, City & Financial Publishing, 1997
Author of chapter "France" in Securitization, IAL/Kluwer Law International, 1998

Languages
English
French
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish

Citizenship
France