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De Pardieu is a market leader in project development and finance in the energy and infrastructure sectors.

We advise our clients at every stage of project development and finance transactions, from structuring the deal, drafting and negotiating project and financing documentation, refinancing or restructuring existing transactions, to monitoring contract performance. Our extensive expertise also covers risk management and dispute resolution. We also act on the secondary market in the context of M&A transactions involving project companies.

Our Project Development and Finance team advises a wide range of industry players on the development and financing of projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors: commercial banks, institutional lenders, investment funds, industrialists, developers and manufacturers.

We draw on the recognized expertise and wide-ranging experience of our integrated, multi-disciplinary team of lawyers in all areas of business law to offer our clients a comprehensive support on all issues raised by the transaction. We assist our clients with the legal, tax, regulatory and environmental aspects of their projects.

We support our clients both in France and internationally in the context of projects with an international dimension, thanks to our network of foreign correspondents, made up of leading preferred law firms across the globe with whom we have fostered long-standing close relationships.

Urban Planning - Development - Environment

We are experienced in advising our clients on project-related regulatory and environmental issues, with a particular focus on listed facilities, water law, derogations from the prohibition against the destruction of protected species and land-clearing permits.

Latest rankings and awards

Chambers & Partners France 2025 – Projects & Energy: Domestic (Band 2)

Legal 500 EMEA – France – Industry focus: Energy (Tier 2)

IFLR 1000

Project development and Project finance (Tier 3)

Leaders league

Project finance: advising banks or sponsors (Leading)

Leaders League

Renewable energy law (Excellent)

Leaders League

Energy: market regulation (Excellent)

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