Christophe Asselineau

Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Christophe Asselineau

Christophe Asselineau

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Biography

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.


Professional experience

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  • LLB, King’s College London (1985)
  • A post-graduate degree in corporate and business law, La Sorbonne (1988)
  • A post-graduate degree in law, University of Melbourne (1992)
  • Avocat au Barreau de Paris
  • Barrister and Solicitor, qualified in Australia
  • Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales
  • Advising clients on power, mining, rail and ports infrastructure projects in Guinea, Cameroon, Senegal, Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia
  • Advising clients on petrochemical projects in Algeria and Gabon, electrical plant projects in Cameroon, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire, as well as renewables projects in France.

Recommended as a leading projects lawyer in Chambers, Legal 500, European Legal Experts and Who's Who Legal. Clients interviewed by these publications have reported him to be an "impressive" and "very business-minded" lawyer and commented that he is "particularly good in negotiations," describing him as "able to resolve complex situations in difficult jurisdictions" and someone who "keeps ideas very clear and is easy to work with."

 

  • Christophe Asselineau has published articles in the Mining Journal, the International Energy and Taxation Law Review, Les Echos Energies, La Tribune, the American Lawyer and Les Afriques.
  • French
  • English

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