Terry Cone (Sydney M. Cone, III) is Counsel to Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, based in New York. He has been with the firm since 1959, including 28 years as partner. Beginning in mid-1996, he has been the C.V. Staff Professor of Law at New York Law School, and the Director of the School's Center for International Law.

Mr. Cone began work at the law firm in its Washington office. He was resident in the firm's Paris and Brussels offices for a total of ten years, and he assisted in the establishment of its Tokyo and Frankfurt offices and its representation of post-Soviet Russia. In the United States, Europe, Hong Kong and Japan, he has been instrumental in the development of rules regulating the practice of lawyers established outside their home jurisdictions. While in Brussels he was a member of the Institute d'Etudes Europeennes of Brussels University. While on a leave of absence in 1961, he served as special assistant to Undersecretary of State George W. Ball.

Mr. Cone is a member of the Bar in New York, as well as the District of Columbia and North Carolina, and while in Paris was a member of the Paris Bar. In 1959 he received an LL.B. degree from Yale University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Journal. He received an undergraduate degree from Haverford College; between college and law school he was a line officer in the United States Navy.

Mr. Cone is a member of the American Bar Association (including the ABA's Committee on Transnational Legal Practice), the New York State Bar Association (he is Vice Chair of its Special Committee on Law Governing Firm Structure and Operations), an The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (he is Special Consultant to the City Bar's Task Force on International Legal Services, Chairman of the City Bar's Special Committee for Relations in the Japanese Bar, and a member of the City Bar's Committee on Multi-disciplinary Practice). He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Within and outside the United States, Mr. Cone has published articles and participated in symposia on a variety of legal subjects, including the regulation of international investment, trade issues, European antitrust developments, bankruptcy issues, financing techniques, and multi-disciplinary practice. His book, International Trade in Legal Services, was published by Little, Brown in 1996.

Mr. Cone was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on November 30, 1930, and graduated from the Asheville School. He lives with his wife, an art historian, in Manhattan. They have two children and two grandchildren.