Practice Areas: International Business Transactions; Complex Litigation; Business Crimes; Antitrust; Trade Regulation Law School: Columbia University, J.D., 1974 Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar College:  Princeton University, A.B., magna cum laude, 1971; Université de Paris, France, 1969-1970 Email: sldreyfuss@hlgslaw.com

Stephen L. Dreyfuss’ practice is concentrated in international business litigation (civil and criminal) and international business transactions, particularly matters involving France and other countries of the European Union. In recent years, he has been involved in complex civil and criminal litigation and transactions in securities, banking, antitrust, multimedia and communications, insurance and products liability matters throughout the United States as well as in Europe. His third undergraduate year at Princeton University was spent in France, where he studied at the Université de Paris and subsequently worked for Kodak-Pathé, the French subsidiary of Eastman Kodak. After a two-year clerkship to a United States District Judge in Newark, he served as Assistant District Attorney for New York County, New York until joining the firm in 1979.

Mr. Dreyfuss is Director of Commissions and a member of the Executive Committee of the Union Internationale des Avocats, the world's oldest international association of bars, law societies and lawyers, as well as Deputy Chief Editor of the UIA magazine Juriste International. He is former Chair of the UIA's Commission on Business Crime. As a member of the New Jersey Bar Association, Mr. Dreyfuss served as Vice-Chair of the International Law and Organizations Section, Chair of the Committee on International Trade and Investments and Vice-Chair of the Antitrust Law Committee.

Mr. Dreyfuss is Executive Vice President and Legal Counsel of the French-American Chamber of Commerce in the United States, and speaks frequently on international legal and business issues in the United States and abroad. He is the Chair of the Advisory Counsel of the Princeton University Department of French and Italian. In 2003, the President of France named him a Chevalier of the Ordre National du Mérite of the Republic of France in recognition of his contributions to French-American relations.

Mr. Dreyfuss is a member of the Bars of New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia, and the federal trial and appellate courts in those jurisdictions.