Industry focus: Energy

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Client Satisfaction

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s projects and energy team offers leading domestic and global clients incisive expertise on transactional, regulatory, and contentious matters across the energy sector. Boasting longstanding experience in the African conventional and alternative energy markets, Barthélemy Faye heads the team and assists major public and private-sector clients in financings, commercial agreements, and project development matters. The firm bolsters this expertise with a standout presence in energy sector disputes, with international arbitration specialist Laurie Achtouk-Spivak regularly representing sovereigns in contentious matters concerning investment treaties and commercial agreements.

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Testimonials

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‘Barthélemy Faye is an exceptionally talented lawyer with an unprecedented work ethic. A truly great team.’

Key clients

Alimentation Couche-Tard
The French State
The Republic of Iraq
The Federal Republic of Nigeria
The Republic of Benin

Work highlights

Represented Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. in its acquisition of TotalEnergies’ retail assets in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Advised the French State in its €9.6 billion tender offer on Électricité de France.
Acting as counsel to the Federal Republic of Nigeria in an ICSID arbitration brought by Shell under the Netherlands-Nigeria BIT in relation to an oil spill in the Niger Delta.