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28 Avenue Victor Hugo
75116 Paris
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Mrs Rachel Campbell
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PARTNER IN THE FINANCE GROUP
Position
Both English and French law qualified, Rachel has almost 20 years’ experience advising on energy, natural resources and infrastructure finance. She regularly acts for banks and trading houses, sponsors and project developers on a wide range of international transactions, including trade and commodity finance, oil and gas, metals and mining, ECA finance and renewables. She has a strong emerging markets practice, with a special focus on Africa.
She has worked for international law firms in London, Amsterdam and Paris and was seconded to the energy and commodities, export and projects legal team of a French Bank from 2008-2009.
Rachel is an ESSEC MBA graduate and holds a Bachelor of Law and French from Trinity College Dublin and a Master’s in business law from Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Lawyer Rankings
France > Industry focus: Energy
The sizeable team at Watson Farley & Williams LLP wins plaudits for its ability to handle the structuring and financing of major energy projects, ranging from offshore wind projects to green hydrogen production plants. Corporate PPAs, acquisitions and energy interconnection projects are further areas of strength. Public law and regulatory specialists Laurent Battoue and Arnaud Troizier co-head the practice alongside corporate expert Thomas Rabain and Laurence Martinez-Bellet, a practitioner with longstanding experience of advising on project finance mandates in the energy space. Rachel Campbell and Antoine Bois-Minot are further names to note.
France > Banking and finance: transactional work
Watson Farley & Williams LLP is a well-known name in the field of asset finance among leading banking institutions. Leveraging its international platform and with in-house French and UK law capabilities, the Paris team often advises on high-end shipping finance deals while also handling project finance, export credit, trade and commodity finance in relation to Africa and the French renewables energy sector (including the construction of new battery storage facilities). The group’s workload also includes advising on acquisition finance. The experienced Laurence Martinez-Bellet heads the practice, which also includes Alexia Russell, Philippe Wolanski and Rachel Campbell.