Renewable Energies

For more than 15 years, we have been offering know-how and innovative solutions to our clients in the face of the challenges and imperatives of energy transition, in a constantly evolving legal framework.

Jeantet is building a recognized experience in the development of renewable energies, adapting to market changes and new issues, by accompanying all players in the sector in the most diverse brownfield and greenfield projects:

• onshore and offshore wind turbines
• solar/photovoltaic
• hydraulic marine
• waste-to-energy
• geothermal energy
• biomass/methanization

Our team distinguishes itself through its multidisciplinary skills, consisting of experts in project finance and corporate and acquisition law. We assist our clients, energy producers, private or public banks, investment and debt funds, industrialists and other public institutions, at each key stage of the realisation of their projects in Europe and Africa:

• Regulation (IC authorization and declaration, acquired rights of BPIs, environmental protection, etc.)
• Structuring (advice on participation in calls for tenders, creation of consortiums, legal audits, creation of joint ventures, acquisitions and disposals of companies or parks, etc.)
• Financing (structuring of bank and bond debts, setting up securities, etc.)
• Construction and real estate (validation of land titles, obtaining building permits, etc.)
• Operation (supply and maintenance contracts, purchase obligations, partnership agreements, provision of financial guarantees, etc.)
• Litigation (judicial expertise, administrative, corporate and banking sanctions, etc.)

Our experts have thus developed a particular competence in the development of projects on European and African soil alongside local and international actors:

• Counsel to a Canadian multinational company, specialized in energy transportation, in the context of the creation of a joint venture with one of the French energy leaders for the creation of an offshore wind farm off the French coast (North Sea).
• Counsel to a Canadian multinational company, specialized in energy transportation, in the context of the creation of a joint venture with one of the French energy leaders for the creation of a floating wind farm pilot project in the Mediterranean Sea.
• Counsel to a German investment funds in connection with the acquisition of a French wind farm portfolio from a German developer.
• Assistance to a Canadian renewable energy producer and its French subsidiary in the refinancing of a wind farm in central France.
• Advising banks on the financing of several photovoltaic park installations.
• Advising a public financial institution in connection with the development of a wind farm located in Haute-Vienne.