Banking and Finance

Michaël Armandou is a partner based in the Paris office of Herbert Smith Freehills specialising in project structuring, development and finance in the infrastructure and energy sectors, acting for industrial sponsors and infrastructure funds, lenders, institutional investors, governments and multilateral institutions.

Michaël's experience in these sectors is broad and spans transportation (ports, airports, roads, rail), digital infrastructure, social infrastructure, power generation (wind, solar, green hydrogen, geothermal, gas, co-generation etc) and biofuels. He also advises on the financing and development of new giga factories (EV batteries, green steel, etc.).

In addition to his work in France and Europe, Michaël also advises on projects in emerging markets, including in Latin America, the Caribbean, Central Asia and Francophone Africa.