Philippe Sarrailhé's main areas of practice are international arbitration, mergers and acquisitions, joint-ventures and commercial contracts.

Mr. Sarrailhé is regularly involved as counsel in international arbitrations governed by French law or other civil laws primarily in connection with a variety of commercial and investment matters ranging from construction and management contracts to international distribution agreements and post-acquisition disputes.

On the transactional side, he represents top French and foreign clients in the negotiation of major cross-border private and public M&A transactions as well as joint-ventures and other long-term cooperation agreements involving hospitality, automotive, space, aeronautical, chemical, pharmaceutical, food and other industrial companies as well as banking institutions.

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

Recent matters include:

• Representing Scandinavia-based world leader in the agro-food business in acquisition of large food ingredients division.
• Representing leading foreign pharmaceutical in the field of allergies in acquisition of French competitor.
• Representing North-American petrochemical company in acquisition of European-based assets.
• ICC arbitration in breach of distribution agreement with Latin American party in the computer industry.
• ICSID arbitration in investment dispute with Latin American state in the field of energy.
• ICC arbitration in construction dispute relating to a project in New Caledonia.

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

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
Diploma of Institut d’Etudes Judiciaires, 1972
Diploma, University of Paris Law School, 1972

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

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

Publications
Author of chapter "France" in Practitioner's Handbook on International Arbitration and Mediation, JurisNet LLC, 2007-2011
Author of chapter "France" in The ABA Guide to International Business Negotiations, editions released 1994-2009
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 Securitization, IAL/Kluwer Law International, 1998
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 Securities Transactions in Europe (France), CCH, 1996
Author of chapter "France" in Regulations of Foreign Banks (France), 1995
Co-author, "Les Joint-Ventures Franco-Américaines" - FEC/Larcier, 1994

Languages
French
English
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish

Citizenship
France