Gilles Pillet is Professor of Business Law at ESCP Europe in the department of Economics, Law and Social Sciences. He holds a Doctorate in Private Law and a Post-Doctoral qualification for the Supervision of Research in Law, both from Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) University. He teaches national and comparative Business Law and notably Contract and Company Law.

At the same time he lectures Contract Law at the Sciences-Po Paris School of Law and is a legal consultant to the National Bar Council since 2008. As such he has namely worked on matters such as Third Party Funding, class actions, and the reform of French Contract Law.

Prior to joining ESCP Europe he was an assistant Professor at University of Paris XII where he taught Credit Law, transactions concerning payment, debt and transfers, Property Law, Securities Law, and the influence of Human Rights on Private Law.

He’s also a former legal practitioner (admitted to the Paris bar) and has collaborated for more than ten years with lawyers entitled to appear before the Court of Cassation.

His research focuses on business contracts, their relationships with economics and ethics and Islamic Finance. He’s in charge of the International Business Law Journal division’s dealing with innovative contractual practices.

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Academic Articles

2022

PILLET, G.

La clause d'intégralité a une efficacité inversement proportionnelle à sa précision

LA SEMAINE JURIDIQUE, GENERALE, n°25, 1243 et s.

Academic Articles

2022

PILLET, G.

L'efficacité des pactes d'actionnaires après le revirement de la Cour de cassation (Civ. 3ème, 23 juin 2021)

REVUE DES SOCIETES, n° 3, p. 140 et s.

Other Intellectual Contributions

2022

CHEKROUN, D., G. PILLET

Foreign direct investment screening in France

FUSIONS ET ACQUISITIONS, 324, 157

ESCP Impact Papers

2021

SHAGRIN, D., G. PILLET, D. CHEKROUN

Managing the challenge of short-termist activist investors: law-based tools and strategies

ESCP Impact Papers, 2021-19-EN

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Other Intellectual Contributions

2021

CHEKROUN, D., M. GUERASSIMOVA, G. PILLET

Contrôle des investissements étrangers en France

FUSIONS ET ACQUISITIONS, 315, 140

Academic Articles

2020

PILLET, G

Diversité dans les métiers du droit : 27 recommandations pour comprendre et agir

LA SEMAINE JURIDIQUE, GENERALE, n°11, p. 536 et s

Academic Articles

2020

PILLET, G., P. ROSHER

Les clauses d’intégralité dans les contrats du commerce international Comparaison franco-anglaise

REVUE DE DROIT DES AFFAIRES INTERNATIONALES, n°1 de 2020

Academic Articles

2020

PILLET, G., A. -L. -H. DES YLOUSES

Diversité dans les métiers du droit: 27 propositions pour comprendre et agir

LA SEMAINE JURIDIQUE, GENERALE, n° 11, p. 563 et s.

Academic Articles

2019

PILLET, G.

L'assimilation du cautionnement réel au cautionnement : nature des choses ou expédient?

LA SEMAINE JURIDIQUE, GENERALE, n° 17, p. 802 et s.

Academic Articles

2019

PILLET, G.

Le pacte de préférence s'applique à la vente conclue après son extinction lorsqu'elle résulte d'une promesse unilatérale de vente

RECUEIL DALLOZ, p. 79 et s.