Perrine Limousin | Paris | Hogan Lovells

Perrine Limousin

Counsel Corporate & Finance

Languages

English, French

Limousin Perrine

Perrine Limousin
Limousin Perrine
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A counsel in the Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Project Group, Perrine concentrates on project finance and more specifically in the drafting and negotiation of project agreements (concessions, PFIs, PPAs, EPC, O&M), in France but also more widely in Francophone countries, in particular in North Africa and  West Africa. She joined Hogan Lovells in 2002, after beginning her career as lawyer in PwC's legal services (Landwell) infrastructure group in 2000. With more than 20 years of experience, Perrine has advised sponsors, lenders, DFIs and public authorities on several large project finance transactions in the Paris market over the past years, including one of the France's largest project financed transaction (€8 bn Tours Bordeaux High Speed Train concession, EMEA Project Finance Deal of the Year 2011 ), as well as, more recently in Africa (Singrobo hydropower dam concession project in Ivory Coast, Power Deal of the year - Africa (IJGlobal Awards 2023). 

Perrine's privileged sectors of knowledge include all transportation infrastructure assets (rail, motorways, airports, ports,…) but also energy /renewables (thermal, hydro, solar, wind, offshore wind IPPs,…) and public accommodation projects (e.g. hospitals, prisons,..).Qualified as a public lawyer, Perrine is also a French public law expert and a specialist in the field of public procurement, state aids and EU infrastructure regulations (including EU tariff and infrastructure access rules).

Representative experience

Assisting Governments in connection with the negotiation of the concessions of the 1,500km Benin- Niger sections of the Rail African Rail Loop (€3bn).
Assisting the sponsors in connection with the negotiation of a 70MW hydroelectric power plant in Singrobo, Ivory Coast (€100m, ongoing).
Advising the French Government for the tendering of the highway A45 between Lyon and Saint Etienne concession project (€1200m).
Assisting EIB, KfW, and AFD regarding the €1bn Ouarzazate Noor I (160MW), Noor II (200MW), and Noor IIII (150MW) solar power plants in Morocco.

Advising SNCF Réseau and French Government in relation to tendering of Tours-Bordeaux demand-based rail concession project and Nîmes-Montpellier availability based High Speed Link PPP (€1600).

Assisting the lenders in connection with the Syvade waste treatment and power plant facility in Guadeloupe (€280M).
Advising a pool of banks (including BAD and FMO) in relation to a power plant located in Sendou, Senegal (€300M).
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
  • LL.M. Public Economic Law, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • Paris

Recognition

Administrative and Public Law, France, Recommended

Legal 500 EMEA

2019-2020
Project Finance

Legal 500 EMEA

2019