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Thomas Baudesson

Thomas Baudesson specialises in commercial litigation and more particularly commercial contracts, corporate, product liability, labour law, domestic arbitration, white collar crimes, injunctions and conservatory measures. Thomas regularly advises on matters related to industrials, particularly aerospace & defence and automotive.

Auriane Bijon specialises in capital markets and structured finance.

Charles-Henri Boeringer

Charles-Henri Boeringer specialises in white collar crime matters. Over the last few years, he has assisted clients before criminal authorities and courts at all stages of proceedings, from investigation to final hearing, in very high profile matters involving frauds, corruption or market offences. From 2010 to 2012, he was seconded to our Hong Kong office where he was working with our Asia Anti-corruption practice. Charles-Henri has also extensive experience in commercial litigation.

François Bonteil

François Bonteil specialises in all areas of real estate work including real estate M&A (acquisitions and disposals of property-owning companies and portfolios of real estate assets), real estate private equity (joint ventures / shareholders' agreements), real estate services (including commercial leasing, development and asset management) and real estate finance (acquisition / mortgage financings , corporate and funds financings).

Cédric Burford

Cedric Burford has a particular expertise in debt and equity-linked bond issues, debt issuance programmes, commercial paper, structured debt issues (index-linked, credit-linked) and tax-driven finance structures. Cedric also focuses on French and other European markets, as well as US transactions, acting for major investment banks and issuers.

Delphine Caramalli

Delphine Caramalli is specialised in financial restructuring, insolvency proceedings and mergers and acquisitions related to reorganisation and reversal operations. She works alongside domestic and international investors, private equity funds, hedge funds and other lenders. She also advises shareholders or buyers in their restructuring or external growth operations. Delphine is the Africa Practice Leader for Restructuring.

Xavier Comaills

Xavier Comaills specialises in the formation and fundraising of private equity investment funds and in particular concerning French and European funds' managers. He has extensive experience in primary fundraising and is also leader on secondary transactions including sale of portfolio interests but also GP-led secondary transactions. Xavier also advises institutional limited partners with respect to their investments in private equity and real estate funds. Xavier is also an expert on carried interest structuring.

Delphine Siino Courtin

Delphine Siino Courtin specialises in projects and project finance, particularly in Africa and Europe. Delphine has advised on projects in the power, oil & gas and mining sectors as well as on French private finance initiatives (PFI) and on acquisitions in the energy sector. Delphine is the Africa Practice Leader for Energy and Infra Transition.

Alexandre Couturier

Alexandre Couturier has over 15 years of experience in real estate transactions and financing, advising on asset and share property acquisitions, disposals and financing, cross-border and domestic portfolios, sale and leaseback schemes, and restructuring of commercial and industrial groups involving real estate assets. Additionally, Alexandre has particular expertise in the formation of real estate investment funds including French REITs (OPCI), joint ventures and private equity-type funds. He also routinely advises in leasing matters and in real estate development transactions. He has deep knowledge of the hospitality sector.

Benjamin De Blegiers

Benjamin de Blegiers specialises in PE/M&A operations and has, in particular, developed an expertise in the infrastructure sector. He advises investment funds, insurance companies, pension funds and other long-term investors in their most complex corporate finance operations, in France as well as internationally. Benjamin is a recognized leader in the Infrastructure sector who has been working on the most visible PE/Infrastructure transactions in Europe over the past years. Benjamin is Clifford Chance's global co-head of the Infrastructure practice.

Diego De Lammerville

Diego de Lammerville has litigated numerous complex commercial disputes in state courts and in a variety of arbitral forums. Diego has experience in M&A/Corporate, securities and commercial/distribution litigation. Diego is teaching commercial proceedings at the Paris Bar School and also occasionally teaches securities litigation at Sciences Po.

Jean-Baptiste Merigot De Treigny

Jean-Baptiste Merigot de Treigny advises public and private entities as well as financial institutions on all aspects of public law matters, both in advice and litigation. He specialises in public contracts (tender processes, execution and litigation regarding concessions, public procurement or public private partnerships) and regulation (transportation, energy, telecoms…) notably related to major infrastructures projects.

Corinne Duvnjak

Corinne specialises in international project development and project finance, particularly in Africa and Europe. Corinne has a vast experience in advising sponsors, developers and lenders in the power (including renewable energy), infrastructure, oil&gas and mining sectors as well as on acquisitions in the energy sector.

Thibaud d’Alès

Thibaud d'Alès specialises in commercial litigation (domestic and cross border). His areas of expertise include disputes in relation to distribution agreements, termination of contractual relationships, "private enforcement / follow-on" actions, mergers and acquisitions, product liability, misleading advertising and/or unfair competition, more specifically in matters related to the telecommunications, aviation, and sport industries.

Nikolaï Eatwell

Nikolaï Eatwell specialises in Project, Project Finance and Export Credit transactions, particularly in Africa, Russia, the former CIS and Turkey. The matters Nikolaï has advised on include projects in the mining, metals, oil & gas, power and telecommunications sectors and financings with a wide range of commercial banks, ECAs and multilaterals. He also works on commodities financing.

Susan Ekrami

Arnaud Fromion

Clément Gandibleux

Clément Gandibleux is specialised in commercial litigation. Clément advises and represents clients in a wide range of sectors, including sports, media and telecoms, retail, and aviation.

David advises on all aspects of real estate law. He specialises in corporate real estate, including portfolio, high-profile and complex real estate transactions, as well as real estate private equity, including the formation of real estate funds, joint-ventures and partnerships. His practice also extends to asset, property and development management, with a particular focus on the Property Technology and Energy sectors.

Anthony Giustini

Tony Giustini is the senior partner of our global energy, infrastructure and projects practices. His global practice covers investment, development and finance transactions in the power, renewables, sustainability, clean hydrogen, oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, and infrastructure sectors. He served for years as head of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and Africa Group. Tony is also the leader of the Clean Hydrogen Taskforce (CHT), a group of Clifford Chance lawyers around the globe following the latest in clean H2 regulation, transaction structuring and market developments. Over more than three decades, Tony has represented developers, investors and lenders in many multisource, complex energy, infrastructure and industrial projects in a variety of sectors, in Europe, Africa and other emerging markets. These include oil and gas pipelines, renewables (including geothermal), gas (including renewable natural gas) and coal fired power plants, LNG, mining and transportation projects. Most recently, he has led or worked on teams assisting clients on several (including GW-scale) clean H2 matters, including in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Morocco and Namibia. As the CHT leader, Tony brainstorms with market players across the upstream, midstream and downstream of the emerging clean H2 value chain, including developers, offtakers, regulators, investors, and lenders. Tony has several notable rankings, including Chambers (Chambers & Partners) Band 1 in Project & Energy France, and Project Finance Africa-wide. He is also listed in the Legal500 (Legalease Ltd.) Hall of Fame, and IFLR (Delinian Ltd.) across several categories.

Pierre Goyat specializes in the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border transactions (M&A, private equity) as well as fund and carried interest structuring. He also advises corporate executives on profit-sharing and management incentive plans.

Clémence Graffan

Simon Greenberg

Simon Greenberg is in Clifford Chance's international arbitration group. Simon advises on transnational dispute management and acts as both counsel and as arbitrator in international arbitrations taking place all around the world. He has over 22 years' experience in the field. Simon's experience covers numerous governing laws and seats of arbitration and a range of dispute types and business sectors. In recent years his practice has focused on mining, metals and energy, aviation (in particular helicopters) and telecoms/technology. He also has unparalleled experience of disputes involving allegations of corruption, illegality and/or the breach of anti-bribery and corruption rules. Simon is co-chair of Clifford Chance's global Mining and Metals Sector group. He is also a part time judge of the commercial division of the Supreme Court of Bahrain. Simon spent four years as Deputy Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2008-2012) followed by six years as a Court Member (for Australia) of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration since 2007. He is the Chair of ICC Australia's arbitrator Nominations Commission since July 2022. From 2013 to 2016 Simon represented the Australian Government at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. Simon is a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science of Paris (Sciences Po) since 2008, a visiting professor of international commercial arbitration at Hong Kong University since 2010, and a regular speaker at arbitration conferences. He has published more than 30 journal articles and two books relating to international arbitration.

Frédéric Guilloux

Fabien Jacquemard

Fabien Jacquemard specialises in securitisation, structured finance, derivatives and regulatory.

Frédérick Lacroix

Frédérick Lacroix is head of Clifford Chance's financial services and asset management practice in Paris. He advises under EU and French laws on banking and investment services regulatory matters (including on regulatory capital), asset management and funds, insurance investment regulations, clearing and settlement, and financial/securities litigations, e-money and payment services, financial institution M&A, restructuring and resolution. He advises fintech clients on financial regulatory issues, relating to investment advice, asset management, payment services and banking. Frédérick also co-heads the structured finance/debt practice of the firm in Paris and advises financial institutions and corporates on a wide range of structured finance, capital market and derivative products. In particular, Frédérick has an extensive experience in cash and synthetic securitisations. Frédérick is an active contributor to legal reviews and publications and is also regularly consulted on the drafting of pieces of legislation in the financial sector.

Alexandre Lagarrigue

Alexandre Lagarrigue specialises in the tax aspects of LBOs, M&A transactions and group reorganisations. Alexandre also specialises in the tax aspects of property investments, tax structuring of real estate investment funds and property portfolio restructuring. Alexandre contributes to various French and international publications.

Gilles Lebreton

Gilles Lebreton specialises in LBOs, public-to-privates, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, corporate law and securities law. Gilles regularly advises on matters related to acquisition finance, debt rescheduling and private equity. He also specialises in the industrials sector and particularly in aerospace & defence.

Jonathan Lewis specialises in securitisation, structured finance, banking, derivatives and real estate finance. Since 2010, Jonathan has had a strategic role in advising EFSF / ESM in relation to the resolution of the euro area sovereign debt crisis.

Gauthier Martin

Gauthier Martin co-heads our Paris public law team. His practice encompasses all fields of public law, both in advice and litigation. He has notably developed a recognized expertise in regulated sectors (in the energy, transportation, telecoms and defence fields in particular) as well as complex public contracts (concessions, public private partnerships, public procurement agreements) and project contracts (EPC, O&M, interface agreements, procurement agreements…) related to major infrastructures, in France and internationally. Gauthier is further active on State aid aspects, public domain, public service and state-owned undertakings related matters.

Catherine Naroz

Catherine Naroz mainly assists large corporate enterprises and financial investors and institutions on domestic and cross border private and public M&A transactions. She has a strong expertise in FIG M&A, in the Energy sector and in the Consumer Goods and Retail sector. She also regularly advises many clients (whether listed or not) on corporate governance issues, securities law, reorganizations and strategic equity capital markets transactions, including in the context of IPOs or financial restructuring of listed companies.

Patrice Navarro

As a partner in Clifford Chance’s TechDigital Group, Patrice Navarro focuses on data privacy, cybersecurity, tech transactions, and health data matters. He brings extensive experience and a genuine enthusiasm for technology-related issues, particularly in contract drafting and solving privacy challenges across various industries. His approach to legal matters is grounded in a solid understanding of the complexities within technology and industrial sectors. Before joining Clifford Chance, Patrice built his expertise by working alongside an IT law expert and collaborating with leading firms. Patrice’s practice reflects a deep understanding of intricate technology transactions and a practical approach to digital transformations, supporting the adoption of innovative solutions like AI, Fintech, big data, and cloud-based platforms. A committed advocate for data privacy and cybersecurity, he helps clients navigate compliance and governance projects, particularly under the GDPR framework, and is experienced in managing cross-border data transfer challenges and implementing Binding Corporate Rules. With a focus on real-world solutions, Patrice has worked on a range of tech and data transactions across sectors such as technology, energy, aerospace, and pharmaceuticals. His goal is to ensure that his clients are not only compliant with current data privacy regulations but are also prepared for future developments in the global AI and data landscape.

Pierre-Benoît Pabot du Châtelard

Pierre-Benoît Pabot du Châtelard focuses on banking and finance, particularly cross-border leveraged transaction, syndicated lending, debt restructuring and project financing. Pierre-Benoît has represented many financial institutions, including private equity firms and banks on LBO, LMBO and other financial transactions.

Olivier Plessis

Olivier Plessis has extensive experience in US, European and international securities offerings, particularly in debt and equity capital markets. Olivier advises issuers, shareholders, private equity sponsors and underwriters on a variety of international securities offerings, including investment grade, high-yield and sovereign bond offerings and IPOs, capital increases and rights offerings. Olivier has advised on: the investment grade and high yield debt offerings of Vinci, Pernod Ricard, BUT/Conforama, TSKB, OCP, Oman, Solvay, Total, the Council of Europe Development Bank, Lazard and others. the IPOs of InPost (largest ever tech IPO in Europe), Exclusive Networks, ACWA Power, Adyen (IFLR Equity Deal of the Year), Network International (IFR EMEA IPO of the Year), Arabian Centres Company (IFLR ME Equity Deal of the Year), ALD, NLB and others the rights issues and capital increases of Euronext, Aedifica, Solvay, Nicox, Fastned, Shurgard, Fiat-Chrysler, Cofinnimo, Montea, Home Invest and others

David Préat advises public and private entities as well as financial institutions on public law matters including deregulation, energy, privatisation, state aids, public domain and public services. David specialises in public contracts (concessions, public private partnerships (PPP), public procurement) in relation to major infrastructure projects including arenas, hospitals, prisons, railways, motorways and airports.

Marie works in the Private Funds Group in our Paris office. She advises a broad spectrum of clients on the formation of private funds, investor side work, regulatory advice, and transactional mandates such as secondary transactions, continuation funds, and co-investment schemes.

Mathieu Remy specialises in domestic and cross-border public and private M&A, joint ventures and private equity. Mathieu is the co-head of the OHADA zone and Francophone West and Central Africa group and of the French-German group. Mathieu has extensive experience in working for major French financial institutions on M&A activity and for a broad spectrum of French and international corporations particularly in the consumer goods & retail, media, energy and telecoms sectors.

Julien Rocherieux

Julien Rocherieux specialises in international and domestic asset securitisation, factoring, derivatives and structured finance transactions, as well as real estate finance.

Dessislava Savova

Dessislava Savova leads our Tech Group in Europe, and is head of the Tech//Digital team in Paris. Dessislava specialises in all areas of tech and commercial law, including technology and platform regulations, AI, data privacy and data governance, cybersecurity, commercial contracts and cooperations, joint ventures, e-commerce and consumer law. She leads Clifford Chance’s AI group. Dessi is a highly regarded commentator on AI issues in the mainstream press including BBC, CNBC and Reuters. She also speaks on AI issues at a range of events including for the International Bar Association, World Litigation Forum and City & Financial. She is a lecturer at Sciences Po (Ecole de Droit) and the University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines on Tech & Data Law.

Katrin Schallenberg

Katrin Schallenberg's practice focuses on European and French antitrust and merger control. She advises clients across multiple sectors with a focus on tech, energy, and large industrials. Katrin splits her time between Paris and Brussels.

David Tayar has extensive experience in handling first and second stage complex merger control investigations before both European and French antitrust agencies and in coordinating multijurisdictional filings. He regularly advises clients in restrictive arrangements and monopolization cases before European and French competition authorities and courts. David is a Member of the Board of the Association des Avocats Pratiquant le Droit de la Concurrence.

Yves Wehrli's practice includes general corporate and commercial matters; mergers and acquisitions, sports & media. Yves also specialises in media and sports law. He is the author of a number of published articles and conference papers on various subjects relating to corporate law, computer law, telecommunications law and sports law.

Milica Zatezalo-Falatar

Milica Zatezalo-Falatar is a member of the Clifford Chance Worldwide Projects Group. Milica has extensive experience in advising on project and finance documents and structures, bankability issues, concession legal and regulatory reform and PPPs in Europe and emerging markets. She acts for governments, sponsors, project companies, commercial banks and IFIs in major energy and infrastructure transactions.

Daniel Zerbib began his career as a securitisation lawyer (CMBS, trade receivables) and now specialises in banking and finance, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure finance (both greenfield and brownfield), leveraged finance and debt restructuring.