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Mr Jean-Eric Sauzier

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Work Department

Banking & Finance

Position

Partner

Career

Jean-Eric Sauzier is a Partner at BLC Robert & Associates, heading the Banking and Finance team. Distinguished as a “leading lawyer” by IFLR1000, he specialises in Banking, Project Finance and Insolvency. He possesses long standing expertise in the fields of energy, real estate, hospitality and information technology.

He is regularly instructed by major banking corporations and financial institutions on both domestic and cross-border financing. His work starts as early as providing preliminary advice on the structuring of the debt, identifying key legal risks and defining key terms and conditions pertinent to the type of assets and financing at hand.

His sector expertise on various asset classes allows him to provide lenders with an enhanced insight on key terms of lending. He also provides more transactional support to lenders, DFIs and corporate creditors by assisting in credit evaluation as well as the preparation of subsequent finance, security and disbursement documentation. He is also often solicited by sophisticated borrowers and industry operators for purposes of providing assistance in the raising of their debt financing, negotiation of conditions of same and assisting them towards completing their financial closings.

In the infrastructure and projects sphere, he has acted for both governmental bodies as well as procurement bidders and private parties. He is quite specialised in the area of energy, where he is solicited by energy operators as well as by financial institutions looking forward to financing energy assets, both in Mauritius and in African continent. He has also been involved in the development and financing of other types of projects/assets which include road infrastructure, water distribution, waste management facilities, petroleum storage – to name a few. He also has substantial experience in the hospitality financing space, having worked on the financing of hotels and resorts both locally and overseas and has similarly been involved in both local and foreign real estate projects. Some of his past public sector finance work has been seen as having economic strategic importance – such work includes the drafting of financial instruments which allowed for the granting of COVID financing support to various corporates and industry players which the Government of Mauritius considered as having strategic economic value.

His insolvency work consists primarily of advising banks on their recovery routes as well as providing them with handholding support through either client insolvency situations, both in and out of formal insolvency procedures. He has relevant track record for having been involved in various types of such procedures, whether administrations, receiverships (both with and without receiver managers) as well as liquidations. He is also solicited to advise insolvency practictitioners on specific legal aspects of such procedures as well as for the purposes of providing general handholding support.

His past public sector work includes the drafting of various pieces of legislation which served either as foundation for or improvements to the Mauritian information technology, intellectual property and data protection legal and regulatory frameworks.

He works closely with the banking association and assists the banking community in the handling of key sector issues and developments.

Languages

English & French

Memberships

• Mauritius Bar Association
• Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn

Education

• Bar Vocational Course, Nottingham Law School with mention: Very Competent
• LLM in International Trade Law, University of Essex – With Distinction
• LLB in English and French Law, University of Essex – 1st Class
• Diploma in French Law (DEUF), Université de Lyon III –Faculté de Droit Jean-Moulin (France) – 1st Class