ROBERT D. SLOAN Freret Street New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA

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1 ROBERT D. SLOAN Tulane University Law School Residence Weinmann Hall 1320 Second Street 6329 Freret Street New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA (504) mobile phone EDUCATION: College: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (Liberal Arts Political Science); Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa Legal: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ADMITTED TO THE BAR: EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE: The District of Columbia; B-List in Brussels, Belgium January, 2015 to December, Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin, LLP November, 2013 to Present Senior Lecturer in Law at Tulane Law School August, 2013 to June, Professor of Practice at Louisiana State University Law Center April, 2003 to 2012 Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Entergy Corporation, a Fortune 250 publicly held, integrated energy company primarily focused on electric power production and transmission, retail distribution operations, energy marketing and trading, and gas transportation. Entergy is the second largest nuclear power generator in the United States. Its Legal Department comprises approximately 75 attorneys and roughly 145 persons overall; its geographical reach extends from its regulated utility businesses in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas to non-utility wholesale nuclear plants in a number of US jurisdictions, including New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Michigan, and Nebraska. Much of my work as chief legal officer involved negotiations with other major industry players, litigation management, complex regulatory matters at both state and federal levels all across the country, merger and acquisition activity, compliance issues, corporate governance, and overall corporate strategy. 1

2 December, 1998 to April, 2003 Vice President and General Counsel at General Electric Industrial Systems, a $6.5 billion electrical distribution and control, automation, fire and security, high tech sensor, and motors business with 39,000 employees (60% abroad), 160 factories worldwide, and roughly 100,000 products. The legal department was comprised of attorneys and support staff located in North America, Europe, Asia, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. It included a mix of functional specialists intellectual property, dispute settlement, compliance, mergers and acquisitions, labor and employment, government relations and general commercial transactions counsel. January, 1993 to December, 1998 Managing Partner, Brussels office of McKenna & Cuneo (currently McKenna Long Aldridge). My work focused on international corporate, financial, and project finance transactions as well as a broad range of contract drafting and negotiating principally in the United States, Western Europe, and Asia. I was deeply involved in counseling on a wide range of US and European Union law issues (especially in the competition and environmental law fields) and in organizing corporate activities abroad on behalf of American clients. In addition, I did considerable financial and legal counseling and contract negotiating in Frenchspeaking developing countries, e.g., Gabon, Togo, Cote d Ivoire, Republique du Congo, and Senegal, focusing on complex contract negotiations, privatization of state enterprises, government loan guarantees, and sovereign debt restructuring. April, 1987 to December, 1992 Partner, Washington, DC office of Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, following merger with it of international M&A and litigation boutique practice. Most of my work involved international commercial transactions, acquisitions, project finance, and providing legal and investment advice to developing country governments. November, 1984 to April, 1987 Vice President and Head of the Sovereign Credit Management Division at the First National Bank of Chicago. My responsibilities included: (1) management and restructuring of sovereign long-term and trade finance credits totaling approximately $4 billion in roughly 26 countries; (2) preparing and negotiating short-and long-term loan documentation with the countries involved, the IMF, and various governmental and multilateral lending and insurance agencies; (3) swapping and selling certain of these credits; (4) preparing country risk analyses; and (5) planning the Bank s strategy in the area of sovereign long-term and trade finance debt restructures. Much of this work was centered in Africa and Latin America with principal focus in Africa being in Gabon, Togo, Cote d Ivoire, Senegal, Republique du Congo (Brazzaville), and Angola. February, 1982 to October, 1984 General Counsel of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO), the ten-nation peacekeeping organization which supervises the security arrangements under the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. This international organization had approximately 3400 military and civilian personnel and a budget of roughly $100 million. My legal duties included the supervision of the MFO legal staff in the Rome, Italy headquarters, at the Sinai desert base camps, and local lawyers in Tel Aviv and Cairo. Specific legal responsibilities encompassed tax, government and commercial procurement, insurance, commercial contracts of all sorts as well as personnel, banking and dispute settlement issues. I was also charged 2

3 with negotiating many of the political and financial arrangements between the MFO and participating governments as well as special agreements such as the MFO s headquarters agreement with the Government of Italy. Aside from responsibilities as chief legal officer, this position entailed a large political and strategic planning component taking into account principally the agendas of the United States, key NATO member states, Egypt, Israel, and other regional powers. September 1977 to February, 1982 Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. State Department February, 1981 to February, 1982 Implementation of aspects of U.S. politicomilitary policy, including advising senior State and Defense Department officials concerning the Foreign Assistance Act, the Arms Export Control Act, and the War Powers Resolution as well as drafting legislation in this field and working with others at the State Department and in the Congress to ensure enactment. September, 1977 to February, 1981 Development and implementation of U.S. nuclear non-proliferation and related export control laws and policies. My duties involved principally the application of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act and other relevant aspects of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as well as complex US policies related to the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, management of highly enriched uranium, and other aspects of the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. September, 1973 to June, 1977 General Counsel to the Minority of the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. In addition to my Subcommittee counsel duties, I had a wide range of related responsibilities: drafting and advising on legislation, judicial nominee selection and reviews, legal preparations for the expected Richard Nixon Senate impeachment trial, to the Federal Tort Claims Act, and writing speeches and articles. FOREIGN LANGUAGES: French (fluent), some German and Italian TEACHING AND PUBLICATIONS: Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center -- European Community Law (early 1990s); Senior Lecturer/Professor of Law, Tulane Law School Courses have included (1) European Union Law ( ); (2) Energy Law, Regulation and Public Policy (2016-present); and (3) Law, Literature and Legal Profession (2013-present) Professor of Law, Louisiana State University Law Center Energy Law, Regulation and Public Policy ( ) Lecturer at International Law Institute on privatization and international debt restructuring; 3

4 Professor of Law and Public Policy in the energy law field for senior professionals from the Egyptian national oil, natural gas, and pipeline companies ( ) Author: (1) The Third World Debt Crisis: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going (The Washington Quarterly, Winter 1988); (2) Wall Street: Grosszugigere Zulassungspolitik, Schweizer Bank, February 1990; (3) Presentation at Louisiana State University in 2017 (sponsored by the French Department) on the Notion of Collective Memory in Modern French History with a focus on the Dreyfus Affair ( ) and its aftermath, the Riom Trial (February-April 1942), and the Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach; (4) Presentation at the University of Paris in 2016 (the Sorbonne/Paris-Dauphine) on legal aspects of the Dreyfus Affair with a special focus on the two military court trials in the 1890s and echoes of these events in French history since that time; (5) Presentations at Humboldt University in Berlin on the creation and operation of the Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) in the Sinai within the framework of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty and the Camp David peace negotiation process (August 2016, August 2017, August 2018); (6) Multinational Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel and Other High Level Nuclear Waste: A Roadmap for Moving Forward, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (May 2017), as part of the Academy s Global Nuclear Future (GNF) Initiative; and (7) Presentation on Nuclear Law and Policy in the United States at the Tulane University China-United States Energy Law and Policy Forum in 2017 and scheduled again for the Fall of 2018 Co-Author: (1) Europe Without Frontiers: A Lawyer s Guide (Bureau of National Affairs, 1989), a comprehensive analysis of the EU program for internal market integration; (2) The Investment Provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Corporate Counsel s International Adviser, October 1993); and (3) Exemptions from Harmonization Measures Under Article 100a (4): The Second Authorization of the German Ban on PCP (European Environmental Law Review, 1995). 4

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