Professor Pierre-Henri Conac

Pierre-Henri Conac is Professor of Commercial and Company Law at the University of Luxembourg where he is Director of the Master 2 in European and International Financial Law, specialisation in Banking and Financial Law (LLM).


From 1999 to 2006, he was Associate Professor of Law at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He graduated from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in business law (1991), from HEC School of Management (1990), and from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (1994). He also earned an LL.M. from Columbia Law School (1995).

Pierre-Henri Conac is Professor of Commercial and Company Law at the University of Luxembourg where he founded the Master 2 in European Banking and Financial Law (LLM).

From 1999 to 2006, he was Associate Professor of Law at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He graduated from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in business law (1991), from HEC School of Management (1990), and from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (1994). He also earned an LL.M. from Columbia Law School (1995).

Pierre-Henri Conac is the author of ‘The regulation of securities markets by the French Commission des opérations de bourse (COB) and the US Securities and exchange commission (SEC)’ which was awarded several prizes. His research areas deal principally with securities law, company law, and comparative law in these fields, especially with the United States.

He has written numerous articles on corporate, securities and comparative law, in French, English, German and Spanish and co-edited several books with national and international publishers. He has been member of several working groups in these areas, including the EU Commission appointed Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law of 2011, the DG Markt Informal Company Law Expert Group (ICLEG) in 2014 and is the chair of the European Model Company Act (EMCA) Group.

He has been involved in policy making in company, banking and financial markets law at the EU and at national level. He also participates regularly at conferences in Europe and internationally.

Pierre-Henri Conac is managing editor of the Revue des Sociétés (Dalloz), France's oldest corporate law review, and co-managing editor of the European Company and Financial Law Review (ECFR).

From 2011 to 2016 the Board of Supervisors of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), appointed him twice to its consultative Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG).