Evelyne Girio

A dual-qualified Solicitor of England & Wales and avocat registered with the Paris bar, Evelyne Girio advises clients on project developments, project financings, and complex commercial transactions, including M&A transactions governed by English and French law.

Evelyne has extensive experience handling complex, cross-border matters in the energy and natural resources sectors, especially in emerging markets, with notable recent experience in the African Franco-phone and Lusophone region. She is multi-lingual and negotiates confidently in French, English, and Portuguese.

Evelyne advises sponsors, developers, lenders, strategic corporates, commodity traders, international oil companies, national oil companies, and private equity firms on complex commercial agreements, with a particular focus on all forms of commodity contracts, including concessions, production sharing agreements, offtake agreements, gas sale and purchase agreements, LNG sale and purchase agreements, power purchase agreements, mining rights agreements, and capacity rights arrangements.

Drawing on her broad experience in the oil, gas, power, mining, and infrastructure industries, Evelyne advises on:

- Complex commercial transactions

- Project developments

- Project financings

- M&A transactions

In addition to her commercial practice, Evelyne regularly advises clients on a pro bono basis. Her work includes advising Eden Reforestation Projects, a nonprofit organization that rebuilds natural landscapes destroyed by deforestation in developing countries with a view to reducing carbon emissions and generating carbon credits for sale on international markets.

Evelyne counsels key participants in the energy sector on a range of matters, with a particular focus on M&A transactions in the upstream and midstream oil and gas sectors. She regularly represents private equity firms, strategic clients and investors, commodity traders, independent exploration and production (E&P) companies, international oil companies (IOCs), and national oil companies (NOCs).