Thomas Courtel

Practice Areas

Thomas Courtel specialises in two main fields: infrastructure and public companies.

As regards infrastructure and public facilities, he is involved in the construction, financing and operation of roads, motorways and engineering structures, rail links and airports, electronic communications networks, charging stations for electric vehicles, public lighting, urban heating and hydrocarbon transport, stadia and theatres, prisons, courthouses and ministry buildings, hospitals, schools and universities. His team offers a comprehensive service, from the contractual structuring and financing of projects, operational support, through to asset disposals and refinancing.

As regards public companies, Thomas provides advice while working hand-in-hand with the firm's Mergers & Acquisitions and Banking & Finance teams, as well as state aid specialists in our Brussels office. On behalf of these companies, their shareholders, investors and lenders, Thomas works on the nationalisation, privatisation and reorganisation of public companies. He also supports their development: industrial partnerships, debt restructuring, public procurement.

Career

Partner, Gide Loyrette Nouel (since 2008)

Joins Gide Loyrette Nouel (1999)

Admitted to the Paris Bar (2001)

Postgraduate degree public economic law, Paris II Panthéon-Assas University (1998)

Publications

Author or co-author of: "Le vrai rôle de l'Etat : réguler non posséder" (Les Echos, 4 juin 2018) ; "Infrastructures : le bon et le mauvais risque réglementaire" (Magazine des Affaires, 2014) ; "PPP : banaliser les conventions tripartites" (Magazine des Affaires, 2009) ; "Funding stadia in France" (Project Finance International, 2009); "PPP: des précisions sur les candidatures en groupement" (Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics, 2009) ; "Public-Private Partnerships: the Way to Improvement" (Opérations Financières, 2007) ; "CHSF: France's Boldest PPP" (Project Finance International, 2006).