DLA Piper maintains its strong track record for handling mandates concerning the development and structuring of projects, and project contracts and financing for its broad client base of lenders, and borrowers. The team’s workload concerns a wide variety of projects, including social and transport infrastructure, in addition to wind, hydroelectric, solar, and geothermal energy. The team is jointly led by project finance specialists Eric Villateau and Jérôme Pentecoste, who both have notable expertise in public-private partnerships (PPP).

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Key clients

  • Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
  • Idex
  • Glennmont Partners
  • Omnes Capital
  • Mirova (now Vauban Infrastructure)
  • Proparco
  • Urbaser Environnement
  • French Ministry of transports
  • Crédit Industriel et Commercial
  • Covage
  • Société Générale
  • Conquest Asset Management
  • 3i Group
  • Engie
  • Bouygues Construction
  • Dalkia
  • Département de la Meuse
  • Eiffage Concessions
  • Altitude Infrastructure
  • NGE

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Eric Villateau, Jérôme Pentecoste