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Bruno Cantier

Partner Corporate & Finance

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English, French, Creole

Cantier Bruno

Bruno Cantier
Cantier Bruno
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Bruno Cantier focuses on project finance and PPP, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure, energy, and transport.

Bruno assists sponsors, lenders, and public authorities on the project aspects of concessions and PPPs, and in particular on the drafting and negotiation of concession and PFI agreements, and of their construction and O&M subcontracts. He works in close association with the project finance lawyers of the Banking practice in relation with the drafting and negotiation of the finance agreements.

Qualified as a public lawyer, he has more than 25 years of experience in advising sponsors, lenders, and public authorities in the field of accommodation and infrastructure concession and PPP projects, with a particular focus on rail and road project financed transactions.

Representative experience

Advising Alstom Wind in connection with the €10bn French Atlantic offshore windfarms tenders, including the negotiation of their EPC and O&M contracts.

Advising Alstom involving bid to operate (850MW aggregated) onshore windfarms in Morocco (€1.2bn) and negotiating the EPC/O&M agreements of Taza 150 MW windfarm.

Advising the sponsors in connection with the negotiation of a 70MW hydroelectric power plant in Singrobo, Ivory Coast (€100M, ongoing).

Advising Governments in connection with the negotiation of the concessions of the 1,500km Benin- Niger sections of the Rail African Rail Loop (€3bn).

Advising the EIB in connection with the €1bn Ouarzazate Noor I (160MW), Noor II (150MW) and Noor IIII (150MW) solar power plants in Morocco.

Advising a contractor in its bids for the Rades and Mornaguia power plants in Tunisia.

Advising the lenders with a waste treatment and power plant facility in Guadeloupe (€280M).

Advising the lenders in the frame of the construction of a greenfield, 15 kilometers-long TramBus line between Fort de France's airport and city centre (Martinique).

Credentials

Education
  • D.E.A. Droit Public Interne, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1992

Recognition

Recommended as a National Leader in Administrative Litigation

Whos Who Legal

2020
Recommended as a National Leader in Government Contracts

Whos Who Legal

2020
Industry Focus: Energy

Legal 500 EMEA

2019
Administrative and Public Law, France, Recommended

Legal 500 EMEA

2018-2020
Project Finance

Legal 500 EMEA

2018-2019
Bruno Cantier: Recognized in Public Law

Chambers Europe

2018
Bruno Cantier features in the ranking of the 50 best lawyers of 2017

Jeune Afrique

2017
Africa Infrastructure Team of the Year

Legal Week

October 2015
Project Finance French Law Firm of the Year

Finance Monthly

May 2015
N°1 French Law firm for Project Finance

Le Monde du Droit

Mars 2015
Rail Law Firm

Global Transport Finance

2013
N°1 French Law Firm for Concessions & PPP in the past 5 years

Le Magazine des Affaires

2012
European Rail Deal of the Year

Tour - Bordeaux High Speed Concession

2011