Orrick

Energy & Infrastructure

Partner

Hugues Martin-Sisteron is a partner specializing in energy, infrastructure, and natural resources in the Paris office.

Hugues advises on the development and financing of international projects, with a particular focus on Africa and Europe. He has extensive experience advising sponsors (investors and industrialists), developers, and lenders (export credit agencies, commercial lenders, and development banks), particularly in the energy, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors.

Hugues regularly works on transactions in Africa. Through his involvement in numerous large-scale projects, he has acquired in-depth expertise in various national and regional legal systems and regimes, particularly those of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), and the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA).

Hugues is also the author of numerous legal articles published in renowned law journals such as Lexis Nexis (France and Morocco), the Revue de droit bancaire et financier, the Revue Banque, and the Revue Contrats et Marchés Publics. In addition, he co-edits the annual editions of Lamy Droit du Financement and L’Essentiel Droits Africains des Affaires (Lextenso). He has also published the first book devoted to Islamic project financing.

French, English

Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ph.D., Private Law, 2011 ENA, Master 2, Public Management, 2010 HEC Paris, Attended, 2009 Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, Master 2, Business Law, 2008 Université Paris II Panthéon – Assas, Master 2, Tax Law, 2008 Université Paris II Panthéon – Assas, Institute of Business Law, 2007