Overview
Aymeric has over 15 years’ expertise advising on complex development, financing, sale and purchase of assets across the energy, infrastructure and mining sectors.
Co-leader of our Mining sector, Aymeric has particular expertise in advising on critical minerals projects, associated infrastructure and decarbonisation transactions across Africa, Europe and Asia and is also involved in the battery value-chain.
His experience also includes complex energy transition projects such as hydrogen export projects and large scale infrastructure PPPs.
Aymeric has a wide international experience having been seconded to the Linklaters Hong Kong office and JBIC in Tokyo, and he also lived and worked in Algeria.
Aymeric was distinguished as “Project Lawyer of the Year” in the 2024 Africa Legal Power List rankings from Africa Business Plus and Jeune Afrique and is also referenced in Legal 500.
Experience
Aymeric has led or been a key adviser on several innovative, first in market and large-scale transactions. These include advising on:
- Landmark mining and associated infrastructure projects, including:
- Rio Tinto on the US15bn Simandou iron ore and infrastructure project in Guinea;
- Africa Finance Corporation on the Lobito Corridor project across Angola and Zambia;
- ArcelorMittal on its Liberia iron ore and associated infrastructure project;
- Barrick on a series of matters in Mali, Ivory Coast and the DRC;
- Rio Tinto on the renewal of its partnership with the government of Madagascar regarding the QMM Ilmenite Project;
- Fortescue on the Belinga iron ore mine in Gabon;
- Successive bidders on potential acquisitions of major copper and cobalt assets in DRC and Zambia;
- MMG Limited on its DRC copper and cobalt projects;
- Nouvelle Gabon Mining on the Franceville manganese mine in Gabon;
- Investors on lithium projects in Africa and Europe.
- EV and Battery infrastructure projects in Europe, including the first-in-market EV Charging network to be project financed for Allego-Meridiam in France and on several EV related projects in Belgium, Germany, Poland and Sweden;
- Hydrogen export projects including: a joint venture between TE H2 and VERBUND for the implementation of a significant Green Hydrogen Project in Tunisia; CWP’s H2 Mauritania project; an ammonia export scheme in Djibouti and Ethiopia;
- Several rail and road PPP projects in France including the €4bn Tours-Bordeaux and €1.7bn Nimes-Montpellier high speed railways as well as Port PPPs in Africa, including the first international project finance in Mauritania;
- Numerous conventional and renewables power projects in the Middle East (Facility-D in Qatar, Suez Wind in Egypt) and Africa (Taza Wind Farm in Morocco, Azito in Ivory Coast, hydropower projects in Cameroon and Ivory Coast).
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