
Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I.‘s public law, energy, and environment team is headed by renowned individual Jean-Nicolas Clément and often advises businesses, administrations, and major public bodies. The team particularly stands out for its work in industrial, mining, and nuclear law, as well as environmental criminal law. Notably, Clément regularly provides clients with consultancy and litigation support on matters pertaining to industrial environmental law, nuclear law, and energy law. Other key individual Alice Bouillié advises industrial clients on all aspects of environmental law, particularly relating to acquisition projects, while also assisting them with litigation proceedings before administrative, civil, and criminal courts.
Testimonials
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‘This is a team with a great deal of expertise and an incomparable quality of listening and understanding of business issues.'
'The quality of the service is excellent, particularly with the ability to provide very rapid assistance with high quality legal and strategic support.'
‘Alice Bouillé and Jean-Nicolas Clément form a very nice team. Their great responsiveness and availability is greatly appreciated. What also characterizes this team is their ability to quickly grasp what is at stake on a legal, economic and reputational level.'
‘The team is very technical in substance. It calls on procedural law specialists from its firm or on fellow lawyers at the Council when necessary (e.g.: criminal procedure). It is very pleasant and efficient.'
‘Jean-Nicolas Clément and Alice Bouillé manage the files in a very complementary way. The team's essential qualities are high technicality and availability.'
Key clients
- HAROPA PORT
- LISEA
- Autoroutes du Sud de la France
- Imerys
- Prologis
- Vinci Autoroutes
- TotalEnergies
- Paris Saint Germain Football Club
- Agence Nationale de Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs
- Umicore
- ExxonMobil
- Nintendo
Work highlights
- Assisting ASF with litigation brought by several environmental protection associations against the environmental authorisation issued for the construction of the A680 highway project connected with the A69 highway.
- Assisting Imerys, a French multinational company specialising in the production and processing of industrial minerals, with the environmental strategy for the development of a lithium deposit project of strategic importance for the independence of the national supply in the context of the energy transition.
- Assisting the Agence Nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs, a public body in charge of building and operating the only French and European underground site for the storage of radioactive waste (project CIGEO).
Lawyers

Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jean-Nicolas Clément