ORCO PROPERTY GROUP | Gilles Kolifrath
Gilles Kolifrath
Group General Counsel
Gilles Kolifrath is Group General Counsel. Mr. Gilles Kolifrath joined ORCO Property Group in 2007. Mr. Kolifrath heads ORCO’s Legal function and coordinates the activities of all the lawyers within the Group. He is in charge of financial and legal aspects of deals, participations, and stocks and financial instruments issued by ORCO and its subsidiaries. He also monitors the relationship with our external legal advisors. Mr. Kolifrath has a Master of Law from Paris-XI University, a Tax Specialised Doctorate from Paris-V University and a Certificate of Public Management from Indiana University. He has also studied economics and political science. He has specialized in complex financial transactions including derivatives, fixed income and credit structured products, securitisation, as well as banking law, M&A, project finance and tax. Mr. Kolifrath has 20 years of experience in the legal and compliance fields. He joined after having worked with Natixis as Head of Central Compliance. Before that, he was Head of Calyon’s Capital Markets Legal Team for 4 years and Head of BNP Paribas’ Financial Legal Team for 8 years. For 6 years he also worked as a French Avocat at Linklaters and Gide Loyrette Nouel in Paris. He lectures at the Centre de Formation de la Profession Bancaire in Paris and in the Master of International and European Law at Paris XIII University. He has also published a book on Bonds and EMTN as well as various legal articles on financial law issues in French and English legal magazines. Mr. Kolifrath is 45 years old, is married and has two children.