 He worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City in 1988 as a foreign associate.A year later, he practiced at New York's Shearman & Sterling, specializing in mergers and acquisitions.In 1992, he joined a Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, focusing on corporate matters, securities transactions, litigation and regulatory investigations while operating out of the firm's Brussels and Paris offices.