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Ravetto Associés Offices
19 rue de Milan
75 009 PARIS
France
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Ravetto Associés > The Legal 500 Rankings
France > Industry focus: Energy Tier 2
Independent French law firm Ravetto Associés is recognised for its ‘in-depth knowledge of the renewable energy sector, including in cross-border situations’. Public procurement, M&A work, company laws and project finance are all strong suits for the ‘extremely competent’ team. Paul Ravetto is one of a quintet of partners leading the team, and frequently advises clients on energy purchasing and sales contracts. Patrick Labayle-Pabet is particularly strong in public procurement mandates. Anne-Laure Proisy is geared to assist with mandates pertaining to the liberalisation of electricity and gas markets in Europe. The ‘extremely competent‘ Claire Bretheau and Lucie Balmette complete the leadership team.Practice head(s):
Paul Ravetto; Patrick Labayle-Pabet; Anne-Laure Proisy; Claire Bretheau; Lucie Balmette
Testimonials
‘A competent team who complement each other well. Communication between the firm’s lawyers is effective.’
‘Claire Bretheau is extremely competent and knows how to make herself available despite a busy schedule. She has extensive experience in financing and corporate matters, in particular.’
‘A brilliant team with unrivalled market knowledge. ’
‘Claire Bretheau is a very experienced lawyer. She provides quality advice, always listens to the client and thus presents itself as a real facilitator of financing and energy project transactions.’
‘Very experienced team in the energy sector, capable of dealing with a wide variety of issues, with responsiveness and systematic adherence to deadlines, producing rigorous and complete written reports.’
‘The Ravetto team is distinguished by its exceptional legal practice and in-depth knowledge of the renewable energy sector, including in cross-border situations. Thanks to Ravetto, we have been able to carry out several complex, cross-border acquisitions.’
‘Claire Bretheau stands out for her excellent legal knowledge as well as her long experience in cross-border transactions, particularly in relation to Germany. She also speaks German fluently, which gives us a competitive advantage with our German investors.’
‘The team has a very good understanding of subjects linked to energy and public procurement. Great responsiveness and quality work.’
Key clients
Alpiq
ArcelorMittalEnergy
Endesa
Iberdrola
Primeo
BKW
Mitsubishi Chemical Performance
CDC (Caisse des dépôts et consignations)
Storengy
Commission de régulation de l’énergie
SOVEN (Engie Group)
Petroineos (Petroineos Manufacturing France)
Edenkia
Proxiserve
TotalEnergies Raffinage Chimie
Rayonier
Norske Skog Golbey
French State
Sylvamo
Sphere
Aptar
STMicroelectronics
Landesbank Saar
Bpifrance
SpieCityNetworks
CIC
Compagnie Industrielle Maritime
Voltalia
H2Air
Industrie Werke Basel (IWB)
Deutsche Kreditbank AG
Régie 3D Energies
Alterric (formerly Enercon IPP teams)
Sunrock
Neolelectra
MET
Greenyellow
Ocean Winds
Terravent
Aventron
Elmy
Work highlights
- Representing Primeo Energie Grands Comptes and Primeo Energie Solutions in two litigation proceedings against EDF before the Paris Commercial Court.
- Advising French public institution Caisse des dépôts et consignations on energy regulatory issues, negotiation of project contracts and the financing of a biomass power plant in a paper mill.
- Advising FMET (Demeter) and SPIE (SpieCityNetwork) on the creation of a special purpose vehicle in order to deploy the first stations of the new e-Vadea ultra-fast charging network.
Ravetto Associés > Firm Profile
The firm: Ravetto Associés, a law firm exclusively specialising in the energy industry, was founded in February 2009 by Paul Ravetto, who dedicated his practice to the fields of electricity, gas, and heating. Patrick Labayle joined the firm as partner in 2010, in charge of Ravetto Associés’ public law practice.
After beginning their careers in prestigious French and Anglo-American firms, Ravetto Associés’ founding partners chose to create a human-sized firm in order to bring their clients tailored advice and to meet their expectations in terms of expertise, responsiveness, and availability.
The firm has grown to nine lawyers since its creation. Anne-Laure Proisy, who has been with Ravetto Associés since 2009, became a partner in 2016 and focuses on contractual, regulatory and M&A aspects in the renewable energy sector. The same year, Claire Bretheau joined as partner in charge of the financing of energy projects and French-German cross-border energy transactions.
Areas of practice: Ravetto Associés focuses on the legal, regulatory, and contractual aspects of the electricity, gas, and heat production industries.
The firm’s expertise also encompasses public business law, particularly public procurement law, and it represents the interests of local and national public authorities, as well as those of French and foreign corporate clients.
The firm’s clients vary in profile, status, nationality, and size. Ravetto Associés serves suppliers, producers, consumers, distributors, and regulators, as well as corporations and public authorities.
Ravetto Associés’ scope of practice covers the following: the legal and regulatory aspects of energy law (power and gas), including upstream (lobbying) and downstream (interpretation and appeal) reaction to new rules and legislation; public contract law (public procurement, public service delegations and PPPs) and litigation before administrative courts; energy supply agreements and other associated contracts (drawing rights), and agreements for accessing energy networks, including drafting, assisting in the negotiation, interpretation and litigation (especially before the energy regulatory commission, or before civil/administrative courts); energy trading agreements (EFET, ISDA and/or ad hoc contracts or framework agreements for underlying assets such as gas, electricity, capacity guarantees, allowances, etc; developing projects for new energy production plants, including the implementation of partnerships or development agreements between the parties involved, securing land tenure rights, permitting for energy rights, urban planning, and environmental protection, contracts for construction and operation of a new plant (turnkey contracts, delegated project management agreements, construction agreements, operation and maintenance agreements), creating and following up on project companies (drafting by-laws and shareholder agreements, financing through share capital increase or shareholder loan and corporate formalities); project financing, including legal audit, drafting the financing documentation and assistance in the negotiations of the financing documentation until the financial close; acquisition and takeover of companies involved in energy, including legal audit, drafting and assistance in negotiating share transfer agreements and following up on operation until the closing date.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Energy regulation | Paul Ravetto | ||
Energy contracts | Paul Ravetto | ||
Energy projects | Paul Ravetto | ||
Energy projects | Anne-Laure Proisy | ||
Corporate energy | Anne-Laure Proisy | ||
Corporate energy | Claire Bretheau | ||
Energy financing | Claire Bretheau | ||
Procurements and public | Patrick Labayle-Pabet | ||
Conflict resolution/litigation and arbitration | Paul Ravetto | ||
Conflict resolution/litigation and arbitration | Anne-Laure Proisy | ||
Company restructuring and bankruptcy | Daniel Azan | ||
Company restructuring and bankruptcy | Anne-Laure Proisy |
Staff Figures
Number of lawyers : 9Languages
English French German Spanish- Industry focus: Energy