Marc L. SageAs a member of the New York and Paris Bars, Marc Sage, a French citizen, has practiced law in the U.S., France, and internationally, including in developing countries, for twenty years. Mr. Sage has extensive experience in commercial contracts, cross-border transactions, foreign investments, legal assistance to governments, privatizations, international trade and arbitration.
Marc Sage has used his general practice in business law in domestic and cross-border transactions for domestic and foreign companies including the negotiation and drafting of various legal arrangements covering commercial contracts and financing agreements, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distributorship and agency agreements, licensing, franchising and technical assistance agreements; telecommunications, foreign investments in the EC, Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, Hungary, ex-Yugoslavia and Czech Republic), Africa (Ivory Coast, the Comoro and Congo) and South East Asia (Vietnam and Laos) for French and US.
Marc Sage has done government-related work in developing countries including drafting of laws and regulations, structural adjustment programs in collaboration with the World Bank, procurement contracts, privatizations, review of the regulatory framework for the public sector and the promotion of private investments, debt rescheduling. Mr. Sage, based on his experience in France and his practice in Africa, actively participated in the World Bank assignments awarded to Thelen Reid & Priest LLP in Madagascar and Nigeria. Marc Sage’s litigation experience now working with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP includes international arbitration, judicial proceedings in Paris and New York in matters pertaining to attachment of sovereign assets and debt rescheduling.
Marc Sage’s perfect knowledge of both the European and American legal environment, without forgetting extensive experience of emerging and developing countries and a perfect command of both French and American were the ideal profile for the Secretary General of SoH. But his human commitment to the Foundation’s projects is the real key to his determining action in the establishment of the Foundation and his daily highly qualified support a token of success for future actions.