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Avocat Honoraire, Retired Founding Partner, Salans. |
Conducts mediations in English and French. Subject Specialties: Domestic and International Commercial Disputes.
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PERSONAL
Present Position: Avocat Honoraire. Founding partner of the law firm, Salans, with offices in Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, New York, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Warsaw, Almaty, Prague, Baku, Bratislava, Bucharest, Istanbul, Shanghai, Tahiti, Noumea
Education
Harvard University A.B., 1954
Trinity College, Cambridge University, M.A. 1956; LL.B., 1958
University of Chicago, J.D., 1957
Professional Experience
Founding partner of the law firm, Salans, with a broad experience in representing international companies in most areas of commercial and corporate law. Avocat Honoraire since 1998.
Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1966-1972; Assistant Legal Adviser for Inter-American Affairs, 1965; Assistant Legal Adviser for Far Eastern Affairs, 1962-1964; Attorney Adviser, 1959-1961.
Legal Adviser to the United States delegation to the Vietnam Peace Talks, Paris, 1968-1972. Head of United States delegation to the 1972 UNESCO conference to create The World Heritage Convention. Legal Adviser to the United States delegation to the 1962 Geneva Conference on the neutrality of Laos.
Member:
American Bar Association (Chairman East-West Trade and Investment Committee, 1975-1982)
American Society of International Law.
Admitted to the Bar of Paris, France (as an "avocat") and to the Bars of the State of Illinois, the District of Columbia and of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Board of Directors, American Chamber of Commerce in France, 1978-1988, Chairman, Laws and Public Affairs Committee.
Arbitration Experience
Mr. Salans’ career, both in the State Department and in private practice, has centered around dispute resolution and negotiation.
Mr. Salans has acted as arbitrator, counsel or co-counsel in over 150 international arbitrations. He has served as chairman or co-arbitrator of arbitral tribunals under the rules of the World Bank – International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, International Chamber of Commerce, American Arbitration Association, in UNCITRAL arbitrations, and in arbitrations under other rules such as those of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and in various ad hoc arbitrations. He is an United States arbitrator in the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague and a Vice-Chairman of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC.
Mr. Salans has been counsel or co-counsel to parties in a wide variety of international commercial arbitrations, both institutional and ad hoc.
The above cases have involved turn-key plants, construction, mining, energy and natural resource projects, joint ventures, licensing, transfers of technology, product liability, corporate acquisitions, distribution and a variety of other international and commercial contracts.
Mr. Salans has served as a member of various ICC arbitration panels or committees and has spoken and written on subjects of arbitration and other dispute settlement mechanisms. He was a member of the ICC committee which drafted the ICC ADR Rules, including mediation.
Languages
English (mother tongue)
French (fluent)