Consero is honored to announce that Adam Smith has joined the faculty for Consero's European Corporate Counsel Forum 2012.
Adam Smith is Group General Counsel of DCNS, based in Paris. With sales of €2.5bn, DCNS is a world leader in naval defence and an innovative player in energy. The group builds and supports conventional and nuclear submarines and surface combat vessels for navies worldwide and is also active in civil nuclear engineering and marine renewable energy projects. Mr. Smith joined the group in June 2010 and heads a team of around 40 lawyers and 70 contract managers based in Paris and the historic French shipyards. In addition, Mr. Smith leads the group's compliance function.
Mr. Smith qualified in 1990 at Lovells in London, where he worked in the corporate insolvency team buying and selling rescued businesses. When the recession ended, armed with an MBA, he became an investment banker in the City.
In 1998, Mr. Smith moved to Paris, becoming international legal counsel with the Lagardère group so as to participate in the consolidation of the European aerospace sector, which led to the creation of EADS in 2000. Until 2008, he was head of the M&A legal department at EADS' Paris headquarters. Thereafter, he moved to Munich as General Counsel of the defence & security division of EADS, now known as Cassidian.
A British and French national, Mr. Smith holds an LLB from University College London, an MBA from London Business School and is currently completing an Master of Arts in History. He is a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
