Salli A. Swartz has practiced international business law in Paris since 1979. She began her career in Paris with the Paris-based law firm of S.G. Archibald where she specialized for over four years in ICC arbitrations of turn-key constructions projects in the Middle East. She then joined the French firm of Simeon Moquet Borde where she acquired broad corporate law experience and was the head Anglo-Saxon attorney on several major acquisitions and joint ventures between American and French companies. She subsequently practiced with Price Waterhouse, before founding Masson Piéron Swartz Beaucourt & Associés in 1988. In January 1999, she merged her practice with the firm of Phillips & Giraud which changed its name to Phillips Giraud Naud & Swartz.

    Although she is specialized in international arbitrations (in particular ICC arbitrations) and in mediations (she is an accredited mediator with the Chambre de Commerce et Industrie de Paris), her practice is quite diverse and has involved the negotiation of aircraft leases, hydrocarbon development and production agreements, transnational joint venture and consortium agreements and complex industrial and intellectual property licensing agreements. She regularly advises French and other European subsidiaries of major American multinational companies in connection with their business activities in Europe and the Middle East and has recently advised many European and other clients with respect to compliance and other issues arising out of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, anti-boycott laws and the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials.

        She has lectured on "Structuring International Transactions: Establishing Distribution Networks" (Center for International Legal Studies, March 1996), "International Licensing and Competition Law : Know-How Licenses" (Center for International Legal Studies, October 1996), "Doing Business Worldwide : Transnational Litigation" (American Bar Association Midwest International Law Forum, November 1996), "Going International : Distribution and Agency Agreements in Europe" (Virginia Continuing Legal Education Program May, 1997), "Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Madagascar (USIA Guest Speaker, September 1997), and "When Disaster Strikes - What To Do When An International Sales Transaction Goes Wrong" (International Bar Association Conference, New Delhi, November 1997), "International Mergers & Acquisitions: Critical Issues for In-House Counsel (American Bar Association Conference, April, 1998), "Rights to Privacy Worldwide: Do They Exist, Who Do They Protect and Why" (American Bar Association Conference, April, 1998), "Transparency and Business and Government", Guest Lecturer at the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Oman Institute of Public Administration, May 1998, "Corruption and Transparency in  Business and Government", Guest Lecturer in Burkina Faso, September, 1998; and was a Guest Lecturer in both Lomé, Togo and Cotonou, Benin in September 2002 and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2005 on Transparency and Corruption. She teaches intellectual property at the Ecole National Superieur des Arts & Metiers in Paris and international arbitration and mediation at the French business school Hautes Etudes Commerciales.




        She is the author of "Trademark Litigation in France" (Euromoney Publications, September, 1996), "Litigation Strategy in France" (Euromoney Publications, March, 1997), "Remedies for International Sellers of Goods" (Chapter on France), Sweet & Maxwell, 1997, and "French Language Requirements" (International Law News, American Bar Association, Vol. 26 n° 3, Summer 1997), co-editor and author of a chapter in “Careers in International Law” published by the ABA in 2001, Co Editor on a book entitled “International Joint Ventures, published by the ABA in 2002 and  author of a chapter on “Selling Products in Foreign Countries-International Sales” in the book “Negotiating and Structuring International Commercial Transactions” published by the ABA in 2003.

        She is a Member of the Pennsylvania and Paris Bars, with specializations in the Law of International Relations and Commercial Law, is admitted to practice before the French Courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Supreme Court and is Publications Officer of the International Section of the ABA of which she is a member of the Governing Council. She is also a member of the Business Law Section of the ABA, Vice Chair and Newsletter editor of the International Sales Committee of the  International Bar Association and is the ABA liaison to the Union Internationale des Avocats

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