Cecil Quillen was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Bank of Georgia Group PLC on 24 February 2018. Mr Quillen also serves as a member of Bank of Georgia Group PLC’s Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee. Mr Quillen is also a member of the Bank’s Supervisory Board.
Mr Quillen is a lawyer and a London-based U.S. partner of Linklaters LLP, the global law firm. He is the leader of the firm’s U.S. securities practice. Mr Quillen works on a broad spectrum of securities and finance matters. A particular focus of his practice has been transactions in the CIS and in central and eastern Europe. Mr Quillen is an officer of the Securities Law Committee of the International Bar Association, and chairs its Regulatory Affairs sub-committee, and sits on the Advisory Committee for Securities Regulation in Europe of the Practising Law Institute. He is a trustee of the University of Virginia Law School Foundation. Mr Quillen became a partner of Linklaters in 1996 and was resident in the firm’s New York office before transferring to the London office in 2000. He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia and is a registered foreign lawyer in England and Wales.
Mr Quillen received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his law degree from the University of Virginia.