Alain Georges was a partner in the Paris and Brussels offices of Latham & Watkins until 2011. He practiced competition and distribution law at the French and Community level, as well as European law. He advised and represented large French and foreign companies, trade associations and professional entities. He was active in the banking sector, in particular with respect to payment systems and interbank settlement systems and in the press distribution sector as well as in the areas of telecommunications and new technologies. He practiced from 1974 through 1981 as a conseil juridique in a US law firm in Paris and New York. After thirteen years at Salès Vincent Georges & Associés, a French law firm whose Brussels office he opened and managed, Alain Georges joined the EU Department of Stibbe which was merged into Latham in 2001.
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This foreword is an In Memoriam of Mr. Hugues Calvet. En cette fin d’août caniculaire, alors que tous cherchaient encore repos et fraîcheur, Hugues Calvet nous a quittés brutalement alors qu’il s’apprêtait à se rendre à son cabinet et qu’au même moment paraissaient dans la presse économique (...)
