Thomas Courtel

Practice Areas

Thomas Courtel is a partner in Gide's Public Law team in Paris. He specialises in two areas: infrastructure and public companies.

In terms of infrastructure and public facilities, it is involved in the construction, financing and operation of roads, motorways and engineering structures, rail links and airports, electronic communications networks, charging stations for electric vehicles, public lighting, district heating and hydrocarbon transport, stadiums and concert halls, prisons, courthouses and ministerial buildings, hospitals, schools and universities.

Thomas also advises on public companies, working closely with Gide's Mergers & Acquisitions team and with the state aid specialists in our Brussels office. On behalf of these companies, their shareholders, investors and lenders, he takes part in the nationalisation, privatisation and reorganisation of public companies. It also supports their development in all forms: industrial partnerships, debt restructuring, public procurement.

He holds a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies in Public Economic Law from the University of Paris II (1998). He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2001.

Career

Partner, Gide Loyrette Nouel (since 2008)

Joins Gide Loyrette Nouel (1999)

Admitted to the Paris Bar (2001)

Postgraduate degree public economic law, Paris II Panthéon-Assas University (1998)

Publications

Author or co-author of: "Le vrai rôle de l'Etat : réguler non posséder" (Les Echos, 4 juin 2018) ; "Infrastructures : le bon et le mauvais risque réglementaire" (Magazine des Affaires, 2014) ; "PPP : banaliser les conventions tripartites" (Magazine des Affaires, 2009) ; "Funding stadia in France" (Project Finance International, 2009); "PPP: des précisions sur les candidatures en groupement" (Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics, 2009) ; "Public-Private Partnerships: the Way to Improvement" (Opérations Financières, 2007) ; "CHSF: France's Boldest PPP" (Project Finance International, 2006).