Gilles Pillet is a Professor of Business Law at ESCP Business School, in the Department of Economics, Law, and Social Sciences.

His research focuses on business contracts and their intersection with corporate law and governance, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. He oversees the division of the International Business Law Journal dedicated to innovative contractual practices.

Before joining ESCP Business School, Gilles was an Assistant Professor at the University of Paris XII, where he taught Credit Law, Payment Transactions, Debt Transfers, Property Law, Securities Law, and the impact of Human Rights on Private Law. He is also a former legal practitioner (admitted to the Paris Bar) and collaborated for more than ten years with lawyers entitled to appear before the Court of Cassation.

Gilles 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. His teaching focuses on national and comparative Business Law, with a specialization in Contract and Company Law.

He also lectures on Contract Law at the Sciences Po Paris School of Law. For 17 years, he served as a legal consultant to the National Bar Council, contributing to initiatives on topics such as third-party funding, class actions, the restatement of French Contract Law, and the evolution of the legal services market.

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Books

2025

PILLET, G.

Autonomous Vehicles and the Law: A Revolution Through the Prism of Civil Liability

‎ Brill Nijhoff, 613

Academic Articles

2024

PILLET, G.

L'ordonnance relative à l'exercice en société des professions juridiques réglementées

DROIT ET PATRIMOINE, N° 349 (1er septembre 2024), p. 22 et s.

Academic Articles

2024

PILLET, G.

L'expertise de l'article 1843-4 du code civil à l'épreuve de la Convention Européenne des Droits de l'Homme

REVUE DES SOCIETES, N° 3 (14 mars 2024), p. 182 et s.

Academic Articles

2024

PILLET, G.

Seule la certitude du dommage et non celle de son ampleur fait courir le délai de prescription de l'article 2224 du code civil

REVUE DES SOCIETES, n° 5 (Mai 2024), 314 et s.

Academic Articles

2023

PILLET, G.

Le point de départ de la prescription de l'action en responsabilité du dirigeant d'une société à risque illimité

REVUE DES SOCIETES, n°11, 681-685

Academic Articles

2023

PILLET, G.

Promesse unilatérale de droits sociaux: un revirement pour le passé qui engage l'avenir

REVUE DES SOCIETES, n° 9, p. 517-522

Academic Articles

2023

PILLET, G.

Perpétuité et détermination du prix dans les pactes d'associés: l'inégale souplesse du droit commun des contrats

REVUE DES SOCIETES, n° 1, p. 23-27

Academic Articles

2023

PILLET, G.

L'intégration des clauses éthiques dans les contrats internationaux

REVUE DE DROIT DES AFFAIRES INTERNATIONALES, n°2, 97-122

Other Intellectual Contributions

2023

PILLET, G

Les fusions acquisitions et les turbulences du monde en 2023

FUSIONS ET ACQUISITIONS, n°330, p. 3-5

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.