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Mr Justin Faye

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Work Department

Energy & Infrastructure

Position

Justin is a Partner in Linklaters’ Paris Energy & Infrastructure team with significant experience on transactions across the African continent.

Justin’s practice spans all areas of transactional activity in the energy, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. Technically proficient, versatile and solution-oriented, he has significant experience providing seamless advice to sponsors, lenders, multilateral institutions, contractors and host governments on the structuring, financing and development of major projects in France and across Africa as well as regularly supporting the firm’s premium clients on corporate transactions in the energy, infrastructure and natural resources sectors.

Justin has been involved in a number of ground-breaking mandates in Francophone Africa, including the Scaling Solar projects in Senegal and Togo and the Congo bridge project.

Before joining Linklaters, Justin worked for two years in another international law firm in Paris. In 2015, he was seconded for six months to the Energy & Infrastructure team in the London office.

Languages

French, English, Sérère and Wolof. 

Education

Justin holds a master’s degree in Business Law and Tax and a master’s degree in Banking and Financial Law, both from Paris II Panthéon-Assas University.

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Tunisia > Foreign firms

From large-scale energy projects, to distribution and joint venture agreements, Linklaters LLP‘s transactional prowess is brought to bear on matters for clients including private equity firms, financial institutions and telecoms companies. London-based Andrew Jones heads up the team alongside Paris-based Bertrand Andriani. The latter’s project financing expertise extends to secured and unsecured syndicated loans. Justin Faye is well placed to assist with the financing and development of energy and infrastructure projects.

France > Project finance

Distinguished by its ‘great ability to understand the expectations and issues faced by the client’, the team at Linklaters handles all aspects of project structuring and financing. Its expertise cover the gamut of sectors, and it has particular strength with regards transportation, renewables, and infrastructure projects. The group is led by Bertrand Andriani, who has vast knowledge of major infrastructure and energy project financings in France and Francophone Africa. Additional key figures include François April, Stephen Le Vesconte, Justin Faye, and the ‘particularly efficient’ Samuel Bordeleau. Darko Adamovic left the firm in July 2023.

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