Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton's practice handles an array of domestic and international project financings across a range of industries, namely mining, renewables, oil-and-gas, and wastewater. Sovereign and state-owned companies, development finance institutions and foreign governments routinely feature on the group’s client roster. The ‘brilliant, responsive’ Barthélemy Faye leads the team, specialising in the financing and acquisition of energy and natural resources projects across the African continent.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Very competent, diligent, available. Proven knowledge in different sectors of activity, notably infrastructure development.’

  • ‘Barthélémy Faye is very brilliant, responsive and has always provided us with quality documents and gotten out of the most complicated situations. In short, he provides very good advice and is always very diligent.’

Key clients

  • Institut Pasteur de Dakar
  • Gemini Global Development Holding SARL
  • Petrosen
  • The Republic of Senegal

Work highlights

  • Advised Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Senegal on the development and financing of a large-scale manufacturing facility for the production of vaccines against COVID-19 and other endemic diseases.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Barthélemy Faye