The 'highly expert and readily available' team at Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. is well placed to advise on matters with public administrative law and environmental law components, including urban planning and project development. Core environmental law mandates such as water law, environmental authorisations and endangered species matters also constitute key areas of focus for the practice. Jean-Nicolas Clément heads the group and provides advisory and litigation support on industrial environmental, nuclear, mining and energy law. Also noted is Alice Bouillié, who assists clients with advisory and contentious industrial environmental law matters.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Jean-Nicolas Clément and Alice Bouillié are highly skilled professionals.’
- ‘Gide's Environment and Urban Planning team is robust and well-balanced. The team's strengths lie in its availability and its ability to meet the client's deadlines.’
- ‘A highly expert and readily available team. Knowledgeable about the business and the economic and administrative environment. Transparent invoicing.’
- ‘In this team, all participants are heavily involved in our project, but Alice Bouillié stands out for her involvement in substantive issues.’
- ‘Availability, professionalism, accessibility, excellent teamwork, professional sense with reflection on the concrete impacts of due diligence and procedures for clients, excellent knowledge of subjects and issues, no difficulty in questioning, approachable.’
- ‘Jean Nicolas Clément, Camille Fromentin and Alice Bouillié are particularly humane, serious, approachable, open, precise people.'
Key clients
- Autoroutes du Sud de la France (ASF)
- HAROPA PORT
- TotalEnergies
- Imerys
- Agence Nationale de Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs (ANDRA)
- SEA BULK
- AUDEMARD
- Prologis
- SUEZ
- LISEA
- Paris Saint Germain Football Club (PSG)
- Umicore
Work highlights
Represented ASF in litigation brought by several environmental protection associations against the environmental authorisation issued for the construction of the A680 highway project connected with the A69 highway.
Assisting Imerys with the environmental strategy for the development of a lithium deposit project.
Assisting the Agence Nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs (ANDRA) with the construction and operation of an underground site for the storage of radioactive waste (project CIGEO).
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Practice head
Jean-Nicolas Clément
Other key lawyers
Alice Bouillié; Camille Fromentin