Alexis is an expert in negotiation who has devoted a significant part of his 25 year career to negotiating all types of business agreements: financial, commercial, employee agreements, partnerships, etc. His experience has been acquired in difficult operating environments: he negotiated the sale of numerous assets in the British Telecom group following the dotcom bubble burst. He was part of the team that restructured one of Europe’s largest ever corporate failures at Vivendi Universal through a $20 billion asset sale and refinancing programme under the control of the creditor banks. More recently, Alexis was responsible for renegotiating many of the Dannon partnerships and their financing structures, following the global liquidity crisis of 2008/9. In 2010 set up his own consulting and training company, Concordia, accompanying companies and individuals with their business negotiation challenges.