Overview
Facinet is an associate of the Paris energy and infrastructure team, where he focuses on project development transactions, especially in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors. He works on a variety of projects across Africa, Europe and Asia, dealing with both private companies and public organisations.
Before joining Linklaters, Facinet worked at a well-known American firm in Paris, where he gained a lot of experience handling different legal challenges.
Work highlights
- Spiro (ex M-Auto): Advising Spiro a pioneer company on the deployment of an innovative model of electric motorcycles with battery replacement and recharging network across the African continent (notably in Benin and Togo).
- Climate Funds Managers: Advising Climate Funds managers (CFM) on the development of containerized, modular, mobile, and re-deployable solar plants designed to deliver flexible renewable power generation and battery storage capacity to public utilities in Chad and Cameroon.
- Confidential Client: Representing a West African state in the review of two major mining agreements and the renegotiation strategies with international leading mining companies.
- Kinross Gold Corporation: Conducting a comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis for Kinross Gold Corporation concerning their gold mining operations in Mauritania.
- Confidential Client: Advising a top-tier international financial services company in a high-stakes litigation case involving several million euros in a Central African country.
- World Bank Group (Haiti): advising the World Bank Group and the Haitian government in finalising agreements with international telecommunications companies for the construction and operation of infrastructure providing electronic communications services.
- World Bank Group (Niger): advising the World Bank Group on the assessment of the telecommunications sector in Niger and evaluating the broader investment environment to identify risks for potential investors.
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