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Jones Day Offices
2 RUE SAINT-FLORENTIN
75001 PARIS
France
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Nicolas Brice
Work Department
Government Regulation; Financial Markets; Energy
Position
Partner
Career
Nicolas Brice is a partner in the Government Regulation practice and co-lead the Public Law team of Jones Day in Paris. Nicolas is an experienced lawyer who focuses on public law and regulatory, government contracts, project and infrastructure and administrative litigation under French and European laws.
He advises clients in the proceedings and execution of concessions contracts, procurements, public-private partnerships (PPPs) and project financing across a range of sectors, including transportation, energy and TMT. He advises clients on all infrastructure and utilities sectors. Significant projects he has handled include high speed railway lines, motorways, dams, hospitals, universities, airports, stadiums, telecommunication networks and waste treatment facilities among others, including in the context of PPPs.
Nicolas also handles French and European foreign investments authorization (FDI) and advises on regulatory law (French and European) in Energy, Renewable energy, Telecommunications, Transportation and broadly all regulated sectors.
Nicolas represents clients before administrative courts, both in contractual and extra-contractual litigation, involving the responsibility of administrative agencies.
Languages
English, French
Education
- University of Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne (DESS in Public Law and Public Litigation 1999);
- University of Paris II-Panthéon Assas (Maîtrise in Public Law 1998)
Lawyer Rankings
France > Industry focus: Energy
(Leading individuals: Regulatory and public law)Jones Day‘s energy offering is underpinned by its regulatory expertise and in-depth knowledge of the global financial markets. Key contacts at the firm include M&A specialists Alexandre de Verdun and Audrey Bontemps, project and asset finance expert Nicolas Brice, and public law authority Philippe Delelis. Rémy Fekete, Qian Hu, Florent Bouyer and Armelle Sandrin-Deforge are further practitioners capable of leading big-ticket matters in the energy sector. Significant areas of activity for the firm include the creation of joint ventures, corporate and tax restructurings, and equity financings.
France > Project finance
Jones Day‘s practice is well-versed in matters involving the financing of infrastructure, renewable energy, waste, and transportation projects. The group is jointly led by energy and infrastructure project specialist Rémy Fekete; Nicolas Brice, who has broad expertise in concession contracts, and infrastructure and utilities-related PPPs; regulatory expert Philippe Delelis; and Florent Bouyer, who is known for his expertise in capital markets transactions. Sophie Chevallier left the team for an in-house position in October 2023, while Carine Mou Si Yan joined the practice in December 2023 from Orrick.
France > Administrative and public law
Jones Day‘s very established practice thrives in the public procurement field where the firm regularly advises on large mandates, often linked to urban transport, rail, energy and TMT infrastructure. In addition, the team is able to draw on its high-end regulatory know-how to assist leading corporations in challenging the current regulatory framework governing various industry sectors including the healthcare, energy and banking ones, while its expertise in the energy sector is particularly established and extends beyond regulatory issues. The highly experienced Philippe Delelis and the excellent Nicolas Brice jointly head the practice, with counsel Pierre Barthélemy also a key names. Of note, the team further strengthened its capabilities through the hiring of Xavier Domino as of counsel, a former magistrate of the Conseil d’Etat (France’s highest administrative court) in 2023.
France > Industry focus: IT and internet
Jones Day is experienced in handling IT law, with particular expertise in e-commerce, software distribution and digital transformationissues, as well as a burgeoning practice in blockchain, NFTs, facial recognition and AI matters. The group is headed up by Rémy Fekete, an expert in IT law in cross-jurisdictional settings. Other key names to note are Olivier Haas and Nicolas Brice.
Lawyer Rankings
- Administrative and public law France
- Leading individuals: Regulatory and public law France > Industry focus: Energy
- Industry focus: Energy France
- Industry focus: IT and internet France
- Project finance France
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Environment
- Industry focus: Telecoms
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Industry focus: Telecoms
- Private equity: venture/growth capital
- Industry focus: Telecoms
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: equity capital markets
- Compliance
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Private equity: Fund formation
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Employment
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: IT and internet
- Insolvency
- Real estate
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Project finance
- Tax