I enjoy providing legal and commercial advice to business people acting in highly competitive environments. I have been doing this for over 17 years because I have always been interested in completing complex transactions by helping people accomplish their goals and elicit common interests. I particularly enjoy working with highly autonomous teams and/or very close to decision-makers, i.e. where each step taken in the right (or wrong) strategic direction is highly visible and where the impact of decisions is known almost immediately. I am a "business partner", more of a deal creator than a deal maker, that offers advise concerning risk exposure, mitigation actions, how to cope with and ultimately monitor residual risks; and about how to create and implement management systems that cover all these activities. I am frequently involved in complex international transactions.