Olivier Fille-Lambie | Paris | Hogan Lovells

Olivier Fille-Lambie

Partner Corporate & Finance

Languages

English, French

Fille-Lambie Olivier

Olivier Fille-Lambie
Fille-Lambie Olivier
  • Overview
  • Experience
  • Credentials
  • Insights and events

As a partner in our Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects department based in Paris, Olivier Fille-Lambie's practice focuses on acquisition, project and structured finance. Olivier is also the Co-head of the Africa Practice. He works principally for French commercial banks but also for domestic and multilateral development institutions and, to a lesser extent, for borrowers and sponsors.

Olivier runs a team that brings together lawyers from several areas of business law (corporate, banking, public law/PPP, contracts, arbitration), with a particular focus on OHADA business law currently applicable in 17 African countries. The team recently won the African Legal Award 2015 in the Transportation and Infrastructure Team of the Year category.

He joined Hogan Lovells as an associate in 2001 and became partner in 2007. Olivier started his career in 1993 with Klein-Goddard Associés in Paris and was seconded to Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) from 1993 to 1995 and to Washington D.C. in 1996. He joined the Paris office (banking department) of a well-known international firm in 1998 until 2001.

Representative experience

Advising Natixis and Société Générale in the €180M financing of the acquisition of Eurocamp by Homair Vacances.
Advising Natixis in relation to a €150m borrowing base financing to Eramet SA.
Advising the banks (CDC and AFD) on the financing of a PPP transportations project in Martinique.
Advising CDC and AFD on the financing of a PPP energy project in Guadeloupe.
Advising a pool of DFIs in the financing of an electric power plant in Senegal.
Advising a pool of DFIs in the financing of the new International Dakar Airport project in Senegal.

Credentials

Education
  • DESS Arbitration, University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, 1992
  • DEA Business Law, University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, 1991
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • Paris

Recognition

Projects & Energy: International: Finance (France)

Chambers Global

2021
Projects & Energy: International (France), Foreign expert for Africa-wide

Chambers Global

2018-2021
Corporate/Commercial: OHADA Specialists (Africa-wide)

Chambers Global

2019-2021
Recognized in Projects & Energy International: Finance

Chambers Europe

2020-2021
Project Finance (Africa-wide)

Chambers Global

2019-2020
Industry Focus: Energy

Legal 500 EMEA

2019
Projects & Energy (Africa-wide)

Chambers Global

2018-2019
Project Finance

Legal 500 EMEA

2018-2019
Banking and Finance: Transactional Work, France, Recommended

Legal 500 EMEA

2019-2020