Pierre Godé, Top Adviser to France’s Richest Man, Dies at 73
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Pierre Godé, Top Adviser to France’s Richest Man, Dies at 73
“He is my closest colleague as well as a confidant and friend without equal.”
Mr. Godé officially joined Mr. Arnault’s company in 1985, having assisted in a 1984 bid for Boussac, a bankrupt textile company
that counted the Christian Dior fashion house among its assets
Pierre Godé, a French lawyer whose steely negotiation skills
and strategic vision made him the éminence grise of the world’s largest luxury group, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has died in Nice, France.
Mr. Godé and Mr. Arnault met in 1973, when Mr. Godé was the youngest qualified law professor in France
and a lawyer to Mr. Arnault’s father, Jean, the head of a property company.
Polished, charming and deliberately low profile, Mr. Godé was for 30 years rarely
far from the side of Bernard Arnault, LVMH’s chairman and chief executive.
“He is my closest colleague as well as a confidant and friend without equal.”
Mr. Godé officially joined Mr. Arnault’s company in 1985, having assisted in a 1984 bid for Boussac, a bankrupt textile company
that counted the Christian Dior fashion house among its assets
Pierre Godé, a French lawyer whose steely negotiation skills
and strategic vision made him the éminence grise of the world’s largest luxury group, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has died in Nice, France.
Mr. Godé and Mr. Arnault met in 1973, when Mr. Godé was the youngest qualified law professor in France
and a lawyer to Mr. Arnault’s father, Jean, the head of a property company.
Polished, charming and deliberately low profile, Mr. Godé was for 30 years rarely
far from the side of Bernard Arnault, LVMH’s chairman and chief executive.