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Leïla Hubeaut joined August Debouzy as a partner in January 2021. She has been applying her extensive legal expertise and strategic vision to complex and high-stakes projects and transactions in the energy, infrastructure, mining and telecommunications sectors, with a focus on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has over 20 years of experience in advising clients on regulatory and public law aspects, contractual arrangements, project financing, and mergers and acquisitions, ensuring the bankability and sustainability of their ventures.
Her mission is to provide innovative and tailored solutions to the challenges and opportunities that arise in the dynamic and evolving energy landscape, especially on the African continent. She is also involved in the decarbonization of the industry by setting-up innovative power productions projects in France and creating credits carbon projects based on nature-based solutions.
She has provided pro bono support to the new Solar Energy Standardization Initiative launched by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Terawatt Initiative (TWI – a global private non-profit organization led by Engie and launched at COP21) which aims to spur global solar development by standardizing contracts to streamline the development and financing of solar projects.
She also runs training sessions for African representatives of electricity regulators every year at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech).
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Clients say: “She is very dedicated to her clients, trustworthy and tries to find the best solutions.” “She is really strong in negotiations and drafting documents”.
Impressed sources highlight her “strength in legal analysis” as well as her “knowledge of doing business in complicated jurisdictions”.
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August Debouzy advises AESC on the construction of the Douai electric car battery gigafactory, due to open in 2025
Le cabinet August Debouzy a conseillé AESC sur la construction d’une nouvelle gigafactory de batteries pour voitures électriques à Douai dans les
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Le nouvel instrument de garantie proposé par BPIfrance pour accélérer la conclusion des Corporate PPA
Dans un communiqué de presse du 10 novembre 2022, les ministres Bruno Le Maire, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, et Roland Lescure, ont annoncé le lancement d’un fonds de garantie mis en place par la BPIfrance à partir de l’année 2023 afin d’encourager la conclusion de contrats de long terme d’approvisionnement en électricité « PPA »), basés sur les énergies renouvelables au bénéfice des industriels[1]. C’est une excellente nouvelle qui devrait permettre l’accélération la conclusion des PPA, instruments utiles pour répondre aux enjeux de la transition énergétique. Reste toutefois à clarifier certains mécanismes de mise en œuvre de la garantie.
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August Debouzy has advised TotalEnergies on its capital partnership with La Compagnie des Bois du Gabon aimed at developing a new forest management model
August Debouzy has advised TotalEnergies on its acquisition from Criterion Africa Partners of a 49% stake in Compagnie des Bois du Gabon (CBG), a key playe
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August Debouzy s’associe au Conseil Présidentiel pour l'Afrique pour accompagner la montée en puissance de entrepreneurs issus de la diaspora africaine
Le cabinet August Debouzy rejoint l’initiative du Conseil Présidentiel pour l'Afrique mise en place avec Bpifrance, le PASS Africa et confirme son engagement afin d’accélérer le développement des entreprises à fort potentiel de croissance, ayant l’Afrique comme priorité dans leurs ambitions de développement.
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August Debouzy assisted Neot Offgrid Africa as part of its participation in the largest portfolio of mini-solar network projects in Africa to date
August Debouzy assisted Neot Offgrid Africa (“NOA“) as part of its participation in the largest portfolio of mini-solar network projects never realized and the creation of a dedicated investment platform, Winch Energy IPP Holdings Limited.
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August Debouzy assisted Total in the launch of the planting of a 40,000-hectare forest in the Republic of the Congo.
Total and the Forêt Ressources Management group have signed a partnership with the Republic of the Congo for a large-scale afforestation operation: the plantation of a new 40,000-hectare forest on the Batéké trays.
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