Regularly acting for financial institutions and investment funds, Norton Rose Fulbright assists clients with the full gamut of matters involving the financing, transfer and acquisition of projects. Since publication, Anne Lapierre, Arnaud Bélisaire and Simon Cudennec left the firm.

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Key clients

  • Total Energies
  • African Development Bank
  • BpiFrance
  • Auxifip
  • Africa Finance Corporation
  • FMO
  • The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund Limited
  • The OPEC fund for international development
  • Treis Partners Advisory Limited
  • MASEN

Work highlights

  • Assisted Masen with all phases of the tender for the development and operation of a 200MWac photovoltaic power plant combined with a battery energy storage system to be built in Midelt, Morocco.
  • Advised the lenders on the €174.3m senior financing of a hydro power project in Côte d’Ivoire, arranged by the African Development Bank.
  • Assisted Bpifrance with financing for the construction of a wind farm in France named Kernebet developed by TTR Energy and held indirectly by Hexagon Renewable Energy.