Facinet Camara

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.

Facinet is the Co-founder and President of the Start the Change association, an organisation that provides mobile libraries to public schools in Guinea.

Facinet is a published author of short stories in Guinea and in France. 

Facinet holds a Master's degree in Public Business Law and a Magister degree in Economic Activities Law, both from Sorbonne Law School in Paris.

Additionally, he has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations Law from Mercure International University (Conakry, Guinea).