Jocelyn Duval

Practice Areas

A member of the Paris Bar, Jocelyn Duval is one of the founding partners of Kalliopé.

He manages the firm’s Public services and public stakeholders and Energy and infrastructure teams, and co-manages the Environment and industry, and Real Estate – Construction – Urban Planning teams. He is also part of the Compliance – CSR team.

With more than 20 years experience in public business law, urban planning and environmental law, he offers a global vision, a transversal expertise and a pragmatic approach to industry and public players.

He advises and represents both private companies and public entities in the context of public contracts (public procurement, PPP, etc.), as well as in relation to the environmental and urban planning issues they face in the development and implementation of their projects.

Jocelyn masters the regulatory and contractual aspects of development or financing operations, in particular in the renewable energy, transport, infrastructure and health sectors.

Career

Since 2008 Partner, founder of Kalliopé, Paris and Valence

2005-2007 Lawyer, Public Law – Public-Private Partnerships, Linklaters, Paris

2002-2005 Lawyer, Real Estate – Public, Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés, Paris

2000-2002 Lawyer, Spatial Planning, Castelnau office, Paris

Professional Memberships

Member of the Drôme Ardèche Enterprise Network

Member of Rhône Vallée Angels

Publications

Jocelyn Duval, Chloé Dahéron and Noémie Lenormand, “Le Préfet qui ne dit mot sur la demande de modification d’un élevage ICPE… ne consent pas” (“The Prefect who says nothing about the request to modify an ICPE farm … does not consent”), Revue Lexbase Public, October 2021.

Jocelyn Duval, Chloé Dahéron and Noémie Lenormand, “Vers un renforcement de la protection des espèces par la CJUE” (“Towards a strengthening of species protection by the CJEU”), Revue LexisNexis – Énergie – Environnement – Infrastructures, May 2021.

Jocelyn Duval, Chloé Dahéron and Noémie Lenormand, “Energy Law and Regulations in France”, Global Legal Insights to Energy 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Jocelyn Duval and Noémie Lenormand, Booklet of the encyclopedia JurisClasseur on “Legal aspects of the development of photovoltaic installation projects”.

Interview with Jocelyn Duval, 3 questions sur l’énergie (“3 questions on energy”), L’énergie en question, June 2018.

Jocelyn Duval, “Les capacités financières et techniques d’un exploitant ICPE en débat” (The financial and technical capacities of an ICPE operator under debate), Environnement & Technique n°358, 2016.

Interview with Jocelyn Duval, “Faut-il supprimer les PPP de grand-père” (Should old PPP be abolished?), PPP Mag, February-April 2014 p. 28.

Interview with Jocelyn Duval, “The Vent de Colère! Case by the CJEU of 19 December 2013”, Lexbase Hebdo public edition no. 314 of 9 January 2014.

Interview with Jocelyn Duval, “Projet de réforme du principe de précaution” (Draft reform of the precautionary principle), Novethic Info, March 2012.

Languages Spoken

French and English

Experience

- Advising renewable energy producers in litigation proceedings against authorisations or refusals of authorisations for their projects.

- Advising an airport operator in connection with the procurement procedure relating to the renewal of an airport concession located in mainland France.

- Advising an airport operator in the context of pre-contractual summary proceedings initiated by a competitor excluded from a procedure for renewing an airport concession.

- Advising a developer of renewable energy projects on the risks associated with the implementation of different support tools for territories and local authorities.

- Advising a local authority in the context of court-appointed expert proceedings relating to the conditions for carrying out works on a sports and Olympic site.

- Advising a consortium to analyse the legal feasibility of an innovative urban logistics project and to compare the different possible legal arrangements.

- Advising an operator of an industrial site on the risks resulting from the discovery, on the site, of illegally buried waste.

- Advising a property developer to challenge the legality of a refusal of a building permit relating to a residential building located in Ile-de-France.

- Advising a property operator in the context of appeals on the merits and in summary proceedings brought by neighbours against building permits and amended permits authorising the renovation of an office building located in Paris.

- Advising renewable energy producers on the audit of wind and photovoltaic projects prior to their acquisition or financing.