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Projects & Energy - Africa-wide

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What the Team is Known For

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton maintains a robust energy and infrastructure group with a particularly developed presence across francophone Africa. The firm represents a broad range of national and international energy companies, sponsors and investors, with a deep client roster of sovereign governments. The practice demonstrates notable capabilities in PPPs, infrastructure and energy project financing and development, investor-state negotiations and joint ventures, as well as in the sale of energy assets.

Work Highlights

  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton acted for Port Autonome de Cotonou, the principal maritime port in Benin, with a dual tranche financing for development of a terminal building and related infrastructure.

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Barthélemy Faye
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Barthélemy Faye
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Band 2

Paris-based Barthélemy Faye offers considerable depth of experience with respect to transactions born out of developments in the energy and natural resources space. He possesses significant expertise in offshore oil and gas projects, as well as public infrastructure. He often acts for governments and parastatal entities across West Africa.

He manages all our files with an excellent level of service.

Barthélémy is a brilliant, highly regarded lawyer who is not just there to articulate a problem, but to solve it.

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Barthélemy Faye
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Barthélemy Faye
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Band 2