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Lacourte Raquin & Associés

Lacourte Raquin & Associés

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France

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Environment

Noted for its 'great availability, attentiveness and remarkable adaptability', the team at Lacourte Raquin & Associés is routinely instructed by developers, investment funds and industrial groups to assist with the rehabilitation of brownfield sites, environmental considerations for the development of logistics and data centres, and litigation relating to contaminated water and land. Practice heads Xavier de Lesquen and Anne-Laure Gauthier specialise in environmental assessment processes, public law and urban planning.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Xavier de Lesquen and his team demonstrate great availability, attentiveness and remarkable adaptability. They possess highly specialized expertise in all aspects of environmental law as applied to projects or to broader corporate risk management issues, such as those related to protected species.’
  • ‘Clothilde Repeta - her practical and thorough approach to environmental matters (particularly on specific issues related to logistics), her accessibility and availability.’
  • ‘Xavier de Lesquen's team is dynamic, responsive and efficient.'
  • ‘The firm has extensive expertise and can provide answers on a wide range of topics. When an issue touches on several areas, meetings are held with multiple experts to find solutions quickly.’

Key clients

  • Accueil Immobilier
  • Altergie
  • Atland
  • Altarea Cogedim
  • Boralex
  • BNP Paribas Real Estate
  • Carrefour Property
  • CITEO
  • Crédit Agricole Immobilier
  • EDF
  • EDP Renewables
  • Eno Energy

Work highlights

Advised EDF’s management on implementing a group-wide strategy to secure projects, particularly in renewables, in light of challenges posed by protected species legislation and related administrative and criminal risks.

Assisting Hines with the development of a data centre on a former polluted site owned by Air France in Paray-Vieille-Poste.
Assisting Citeo with defining its strategic position vis-à-vis the government in the event of failure to meet its recycling targets.
Practice head

Xavier de Lesquen; Anne-Laure Gauthier

Other key lawyers

Clothilde Repeta

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