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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.

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. Charles-Henri is a member of our global Corruption Risk team. He is the Africa Practice Leader for Risks, Compliance, Investigations.

François Bonteil

François Bonteil specialises in all areas of real estate work: 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.

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.

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.

Arnaud Fromion

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.

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. Pierre is a graduate of HEC Paris (Grande Ecole Program, 2011), of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne university (Master's in Law, 2012), and of Cornell University (Juris Doctor, 2012). He joined Clifford Chance Paris' Tax team in 2019, after having practiced at a leading French law firm from 2013 to 2019. Pierre is a member of the Paris bar.

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.

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's practice encompasses all fields of French public law, both in advice and litigation. He has notably developed a recognized expertise in regulated sectors (in the energy, telecoms and transportation fields in particular) and complex public contracts (concessions, public private partnerships, public 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. He is one of the administrators of our Clean Hydrogen Task Force and is an active member of our Energy Transition group (with experience notably in renewables, nuclear, transmission assets, e-fuels, batteries and green industry).

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.

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.

Managing Partner, Avocat à la Cour

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.