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Gérard Fohlen-Weill has joined the CAHN WILSON team as of summer 2019, to extend the previous successful partnerships for over a decade. Gérard Fohlen-Weill holds a Master's degree in Business Law and is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur de Gestion. He has extensive experience in the banking sector, particularly in infrastructure project financing and public-private partnerships.
He began his career in 1976 with the Rothschild Group, before joining the CCF group (Crédit Commercial de France - HSBC) in 1982 as Assistant Director, with particular responsibility for the automotive, mining, agri-food and tourism sectors at l'Européenne de Banque in 1989.In 1992, Gérard Fohlen-Weill joined the Banques Populaires Group, where, from 1991 to 1996, he was successively Deputy Managing Director of SIGEC, a real estate subsidiary, then Deputy Director of the Major Corporations division from 1996.He joined Natixis in 1999 as Senior Banker in charge of the Construction, Environment and Transport sectors, and in 2008 helped create the Natixis Energy and Raw Materials department, with particular responsibility for the African continent.
Alongside his banking activities, from 1995 to 2008 he was a judge at the Paris Commercial Court, sitting as Chamber President from 2005 to 2008. In 2009, he was appointed Honorary Chamber President. In 2010, Gérard Fohlen-Weill joined the Jeantet law firm as senior of counsel. In 2011, he joins DLA Piper in Paris as Of Counsel, where he joins the Litigation & Regulatory team, providing clients with his expertise in general litigation, restructuring, banking and finance law, as well as his knowledge of French-speaking and sub-Saharan African markets.
Gérard Fohlen-Weill is a member of the Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Audit and Risks Committee of Caisse de Garantie Immobilière du Bâtiment (CGI-BAT), having been a director of CGI-FFB since 1983. He has also been an associate lecturer at the Cergy-Pontoise Law Faculty, teaching the “DJCE”, “Droit des affaires” and “Droit et éthique des affaires” masters programs.
Gérard Fohlen-Weill is a Colonel (H) in the French Air Force and an auditor for the 51st national session of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN). Since 2015, he has officiated as Honorary President of the Union des Associations des auditeurs de l'IHEDN.
