Pierre C.

Pierre Charpié, attorney-at-law admitted to the Bar in Switzerland has specialized in assisting multi national corporations and high networth clients in financial matters. For these clients Pierre not only helped structures financial and industrial deals but also supervise contracts negotiations. As an international arbitrator, conciliator and facilitator, Pierre Charpié has help a number of very large corporation settle very sensitive conflicts without the recourse of expensive and endless lawsuits in international Courts. He has a deep knowledge in international investments and has written a book on International Business Transactions as an Introduction to the International Anti-Bribery Laws ("FCPA, OECD Convention and OECD Member States New Legislation, Analysis, Comparison and Risk Management" 2002, 924 p. with a Foreword by Dean John D. Feerick (Fordham Law School)). Pierre Charpié has a General Certificate of Education (Advanced Level) in economics and holds, since 1974, a Bachelor's degree in Law from University of Geneva and a diploma in accounting from the Business School of Fribourg (Switzerland). He started his career as a lawyer in 1974 and founded his own law-firm in Lausanne at the beginning of 1977. In 1995, Pierre attended Fordham University in New York and completed a LL.M (Master of Law) in Banking, Corporate and Finance Law, and in 1996, another LL.M in International Business and Trade Law . From 1971 to 1976, he was a professor of accounting at the Business School of Geneva (part-time). He is a former ad hoc clerk of the Criminal Surpeme Court of the State of Vaud. From 1981 through the 31st December 1989, he was Chairman and CEO of the "Efficency-Club’’. Created in 1939, the ‘’Efficency Club’’ was at that time the oldest and largest economics association in the French speaking part of Switzerland for small and medium size companies. From 1981 to 1984, Pierre was Chairman of an investment club in Lausanne, which he founded.