Christophe Asselineau is an M&A and projects lawyer based in Paris.

Christophe has over 30 years of experience advising on projects and M&A transactions worldwide particularly in the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors.

He has advised foreign investors, the French Government and major French energy companies and financial institutions on a variety of renewables and non-renewables energy transactions over the years and his work and comments on the French energy market have been publicly acknowledged as having led to some of the amendments made to the French Electricity Act.

He is also recognized as one of the most experienced lawyers for African M&A and projects work. He has advised investors on transactions in more than 25 civil and common law countries in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, including on many of the largest and most complex or politically sensitive investments made on the African continent. He is familiar with and regularly advises on matters governed by OHADA law, the common body of commercial and company laws applicable in 17 African countries.

He has first-hand experience negotiating host government concessions and other agreements with governments and state owned entities and assisting international investors on non-performance and expropriation disputes as well as the related negotiation with host governments and state owned entities.

He has represented clients and acted as an expert witness before Special Commissions of the United Nations, the OECD and the British Parliament.

He teaches International Joint Ventures and Project Finance Law at Paris II University.