Latournerie Wolfrom Avocats

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Public Law

Jean Latournerie

Lawyer at the Paris Bar (1990), Jean Latournerie is founder Partner of LWA and co-manages the Public Business Law practice since 1995. Jean assists his public and private clients in counselling and litigation in French public business law and general administrative law. Jean advises his clients in the field of public contract law, public services deregulation law, public competition law, the law governing public and semi-public companies, public-private partnerships and project financing law. Prior to founding Latournerie Wolfrom Avocats, Jean began his career at the law firm Siméon Moquet Borde & Associés, then at Moquet Borde & Associés prior to joining the law firm Cammarata & Montfort.

Terence Cabot

Admitted to the Paris Bar since 1999, Terence Cabot is dealing in Public Business Law and Administrative Law in general. Specialized in the Economic Public Law and Telecommunications Law, he also focuses on cases concerning Public contracts, Urban Planning Law, Public Competition Law. He supports as well public clients as private clients, in counselling as in contentious lawsuit. He teaches the electronic Communication Law at Poitier University.

Nathalie Sultan

Member of the Paris Bar since 20 years, Nathalie is a partner in the Public Business Law department. Nathalie advises operators and public and semi-public authorities on complex contractual arrangements, often financed through project financing, mainly in the energy, infrastructure (including transport and telecommunications), and construction sectors, both in France and internationally (particularly in Africa). In this context, Nathalie drafts and negotiates all the contracts for the completion of a project (public-private partnership agreements, concession agreements, PPPs, global performance contracts, and subcontracts: design-build or EPC contracts, operation and maintenance contracts, interfaces) and assists her clients in drafting their contracts to secure their projects and manage their risks. She also provides advice and litigation services in the area of public procurement, whether in the context of awarding or executing contracts, including for foreign clients wishing to respond to consultations in France, and public real estate (state property valuation, public off-plan sales). Finally, she has complementary expertise in institutional public law, which enables her to assist her clients in defining the types of structures to be set up for public-private projects (GIP, GIE, SEM, SEMOP, etc.).

Services de l'équipe

We act for international investors, major groups and public entities on complex public-private projects in France, in both advisory and litigation matters. Our partners guide clients through their relations with French and European authorities, securing their investments and operations in regulated markets.

OUR EXPERTISE
PUBLIC CONTRACTS
• Procurement contracts
• Private-Public Partnership Agreements
• Concessions and public service delegations
• Public domain occupancy agreements
• Administrative emphyteutic leases
• Incorporation and operation of SEMs (sociétés d’économies mixtes), SPLs (sociétés publiques locales), SEMOPs (société d’économie mixte à opération unique)

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PROJECTS
• Assistance to the project management of public bodies: from assisting in the determination of the management mode to the negotiation and finetuning of agreements and sub agreements
• Assistance to economic operators: from the preparation of the candidacy files and tender documentation to the negotiation and drafting of the agreements
• Feasibility studies, legal and financial structuring of the project (contractual elaborations, project companies, consortiums)
• Conversions of public establishments into companies, outsourcing of activities, incorporations of subsidiary companies and acquisitions of stakes

GENERAL PUBLIC LAW
• Assistance in the transfer of authority
• Territorial communities (collectivités territoriales) law
• Public establishments law, specialty principle
• Public finances law
• Public service law