Leila Hubeaut

Practice Areas

Leïla Hubeaut has been applying her extensive legal expertise and strategic vision to complex and high-stakes projects and transactions in the energy, infrastructure, mining and telecommunications sectors, with a focus on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has over 20 years of experience in advising clients on regulatory and public law aspects, contractual arrangements, project financing, and mergers and acquisitions, ensuring the bankability and sustainability of their ventures.

Her mission is to provide innovative and tailored solutions to the challenges and opportunities that arise in the dynamic and evolving energy landscape, especially on the African continent. She is also involved in the decarbonization of the industry by setting-up innovative power productions projects in France and creating credits carbon projects based on nature-based solutions.

She has provided pro bono support to the new Solar Energy Standardization Initiative launched by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Terawatt Initiative (TWI – a global private non-profit organization led by Engie and launched at COP21) which aims to spur global solar development by standardizing contracts to streamline the development and financing of solar projects.

She also runs training sessions for African representatives of electricity regulators every year at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech).

Career

- 2021: Joined August Debouzy

- Dentons (2018-2020)

- Herbert Smith Freehills (2013-2017)

- Gide Loyrette Nouel (2002-2013)

- Ernst & Young (1998-2000)

- Admitted to the Paris bar in 2003

Professional Memberships

- Member of the IBA (International Bar Association), “Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law” Section

- Member of the AIPN (Association of International Petroleum Negotiators)

Publications

Leïla has written or co-written articles in various magazines, including with regard to carbon credits, solar projects and solar energy, agribusiness in Africa, as well as hydrocarbons.