• The academic defence of the Legal & Tax Prize, organised byAllen & Overy and HEC Paris - in partnership for the second time this year with the daily business newspaper La Tribune- took place on June 30th, 2008.
  • A jury of16 members(see the complete jury on page 2) including high-profile individuals from the business world, as well as representatives of HEC Paris School of Management and lawyers from Allen & Overy LLP, Paris, selected three winners among six finalists:

First prize*:

Agathe Rameix(International Taxation and Law specialisation): "The EU State aid prohibition applied to French tax legislation"

Second prize**:

Anthony Seghers (International Law and Management Master): "The financial and tax optimisation of a specific LBO: the Owner Buy Out"

Third prize***:

Michel Vanderstraeten (International Taxation and Law specialisation): "In what measure would the CCCTB be a profitable solution to transfer pricing problems in Europe?"

* First prize: 5,000 Euros and a paid work placement for a minimum period of 3 months in Allen & Overy Paris office.

**Second prize: 3,500 Euros

***Third prize: 1,500 Euros

The award ceremony will take place on September 16th, 2008, 19.00 pm, in Paris, in the presence ofErik Izraelewicz, chief editor and deputy director of La Tribune.

JURYMEMBERS – 2008

Caroline Bergeron / Group viceHead of Legal- LVMH
Frédéric de Brouwer / Head of legal for Europe, competition and group legal function - Société Générale
Benoît Dutour / Head of Legal –Nestlé France
Blandine Fauran / Head of Legal & Taxation –Les Entreprises du Médicament
François Funck-Brentano / Head of Legal- Lazard Frères & Compagnie
Cécile Georges / Head of Legal- ADP GSI
Willy Mathot / General Counsel - Ipsen
Marianna Nitsch / Head of Legal- GE Real Estate
Isabelle Perret-Noto / Head of Legal- Cetelem
Laurent Pitet
François Lenglart / HECParis – Scientific Director of the Mastère "International Law and Management"
Nicole Stolowy / HEC Paris – Senior Associate Professor "Business Law and Taxation"
Carine Chassol / Allen & Overy LLP–Banking and Finance
Estelle Dion / Allen & Overy LLP– Tax
Olivier Fréget / Allen & Overy LLP– Competition
Jean-Claude Rivalland / Allen & Overy LLP– Mergers & Acquisitions

A strong integrated international network

Allen & Overy is a premier international legal practice with some 5,500 staff, including some 2,600 lawyers, working in 29 major cities worldwide.

Paris

The office currently numberssome 130 lawyers of whom 26 are partners. The practice has full French, English and US law capability in all the key areas of expertise:

  • banking and finance
  • international capital markets
  • mergers & acquisitions
  • tax
  • litigation/arbitration
  • employment law
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  • competition/anti-trust law
  • public and environmental law
  • intellectual property/information
technology
  • real estate/transactionnal

Legal and Tax Prize

  • The Legal & Tax Prize was created in 2004after Allen & Overy became a member ofthe HEC Foundation.
  • The organisers: two international structures leaders in their fields: A&O, a magic circlelaw firm; andHEC,the first European Business School since 2005.
  • The Prize is awarded for the three best theses,submitted by six to tenstudents of the HEC International Taxation and Law specialisation and of the International Law and Management Master (in partnership with the ESCP-EAP).
  • The jury, composed of high-profile businessmen and women, as well as representatives of HEC Paris School of Management and lawyers from Allen & Overy LLP, Paris, interviews the finalists.
  • The prizes will be presented to the winners during the award ceremony in the presence of a guest of honour; Patricia Barbizet (Artemis) in 2005, Jacques Veyrat(Neuf Cegetel) in 2006 and Alain Weill (NextRadioTV) in 2007.

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