Regularly during the school year, the Dean hosts roundtable discussions with prominent guests who have utilized their law degrees in a variety of nontraditional ways. Over lunch with a small group of students, guests speak autobiographically about their work experiences, sharing valuable insight about how they found their chosen path. Please note that the roundtables are informal and off-the-record.
Carole Piwnica, LLM ’85, who will be the Dean’s guest on Thursday, February 19th, is the founder of Naxos Capital Partners and is the Managing Director of Naxos UK, making investments throughout Europe and the United States. Naxos invests in a range of sectors, including consumer, cleantech technology, mining, industrial and real estate, utilizing a broad range of investment structures, including leverage buyouts, growth and venture capital, and private investment in public equities (PIPE’s).
She is a director of some of Naxos’s portfolio companies, including Big Red, Amyris, Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc., RecyCoal and i20. In the course of her board role duties, Mrs. Piwnica travels extensively worldwide, visiting Naxos’s portfolio companies operations and expanding their networks.
She currently serves as an independent non-executive director on the Board of several French-listed companies, including Eutelsat, a satellite provider. There, she chairs the governance, remuneration, and nomination committee. Additionally, she is a member of the Audit Committee at Sanofi, a multinational pharmaceutical company. She is also a member of the Strategic and the Audit Committees at Paris Orléans, a financial holding company listed on Euronext Paris and controlled by the French and English branch of the Rothschild family.
She is a citizen of Belgium and a resident of the UK. She qualified as a lawyer at the University of Brussels in 1981 and received her LLM degree from New York University in 1985. She has practiced law with a number of international firms, including Shearman & Sterling from 1985 to 1992, where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions.
The Dean’s roundtables are open to 18 interested NYU School of Law JD and graduate students. In order to achieve a representational mix of students, we will designate a proportionate number of seats to JD students and graduate students, respectively, to be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. The roundtables will begin at 12:30 P.M. in Snow Dining Room. If you would like to attend a roundtable, please sign up in advance by emailing Julie DeVito at devitoj@exchange.law.nyu.edu. Please indicate whether you are a JD or graduate student, and whether you have any dietary restrictions.