Join us as Kristy interviews Louise Firestone, SVP & General Counsel of LVMH about the future of luxury.

Louise is the Senior Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel for LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc., where she is responsible for legal matters affecting the French luxury Group’s operating companies in North America. She joined LVMH in August 1999. Prior to that, she was the first US lawyer and General Counsel at Credit Suisse, New York Branch, and a Director at Credit Suisse First Boston after the merger of Credit Suisse and CS First Boston in January 1997.

Before joining Credit Suisse Louise worked in the legal department at Citibank, focusing on US bank regulatory advice to Citibank’s international units. She began her legal career at Cole & Dietz, now the New York office of Winston & Strawn.

Louise received her BA from the Johns Hopkins University, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a JD from Fordham Law School. She is on the Advisory Board of Jhpiego, an international non-profit maternal and infant health organization and a member of the Dean’s Planning Council at Fordham Law School. Louise co-teaches a course at Columbia Law School entitled “Exploring the Role of the General Counsel” that focuses on how to combine practical business sense with legal knowledge to achieve commercial objectives.

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