Arnaud de Senilhes

Arnaud de Senilhes was born in 1962 and graduated Summa cum Laude with a Diplôme d’Études Supérieures Spécialisées (DESS) in business law and taxation from Université Paris II-Panthéon Assas, where he was valedictorian. He and his wife Constance have three children, Ninon, Bastien, Eloi.
Mr. de Senilhes began his professional career as an attorney, working for Coopers & Lybrand Conseils (1986–88), Baker & McKenzie (1988–91) then PricewaterhouseCoopers (Landwell) in several roles: senior manager (1992), bank unit partner (1994), managing partner of the French media and entertainment practice group (1995), and partner in charge of the information technology, communication and information department for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (1996–2003).
He was the founding partner, President, CEO and first shareholder at Taylor Wessing from 2003 to 2008. From 2008 to 2012, he held roles as attorney, manager and managing partner at Nixon Peabody. He then took a position as partner at Jeantet Associés, in charge of the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), and tax practice groups (2012–15). In 2015, he founded his own firm which he continues to lead today.
He is the winner of several prizes, including the Premier Prix du Concours Général in administrative law (1983), Best Managing Partner trophy (2005, 2007), best attorney in intellectual property trophy (2008) in the Trophées du Droit et du Contentieux. Mr. de Senilhes is the only attorney listed by the Centre National du Cinéma as one of the 50 leading personalities in Cinéma Français (French Touch 2019). He is the secretary general of the listed cinema studio EuropaCorp’s board of directors, and a member of the Beijaflore board of directors.
Mr. de Senilhes is a published author, with works including Il était temps, an essay published by Editions Télémaque in 2016 and Magic World, a novel published by Editions Télémaque in 2020. He enjoys restoring historic items, cooking, and horseback riding. He is a member of the Automobile Club de France and has been listed in Who’s Who since 2004.