Among Gerard’s international clients are a leading French aerospace company, the governments of two francophone African nations, various multinational enterprises, European investment groups, and a variety of United States based investors. In the real estate area, he represents office building, hotel, retail, and residential developers and owners, as well as some of the leading condominium developers in the United States in their land acquisition and development matters and large scale land developers in their development activities. He has also represented major foreign corporations in their commercial and real estate activities in the United States and American entities in their activities in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Gerard serves as general counsel to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council which oversees the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC and is counsel to other cultural institutions, as well as to one of the largest service organizations in the United States.

Gerard is fluent in French and renders a significant portion of his legal services in that language.

Following graduation from law school, Gerard was associated for one year with Law Offices of S.G. Archibald in Paris, where he represented American clients in connection with their European, Middle Eastern and African investments. Upon returning to the United States, he joined a prominent Chicago firm where he developed transactional experience with an emphasis in sophisticated real estate transactions.

Gerard holds membership in the American Bar Association International Section, as well as the District of Columbia Bar Association. He has served on the boards of several charitable organizations, acting as legal adviser to those organizations, and is currently a board member of La Fondation du Lycée Français International de Washington.

Gerard has lectured on assorted real estate and related legal topics at seminars and conventions. Through the District of Columbia Bar Association, he recently taught a real estate contract seminar to a group of minority lawyers. He regularly lectures to law students and young lawyers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Due to his extensive pro bono services to the museum, Gerard has been recognized as a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “Founder.”

Gerard was recognized as a leading real estate lawyer by Legal 500 for 2011.