Léa Fournier
Associate
Léa is an associate of the Finance & Projects team in Paris. She advises sponsors, investment funds, lenders and multilateral institutions on their financings, in France and internationally, in the energy, real estate and infrastructure sectors.
Léa is a banking and finance lawyer in the Finance & Projects Group based in Paris. She advises lenders (commercial banks and investment funds), sponsors and other project participants on the structuring, financing, refinancing and development of complex domestic and cross-border projects with a particular emphasis on renewable power, infrastructure and real estate sectors in France, Europe and emerging countries (in particular West Africa). Léa has also gained a broad and in-depth knowledge of DFIs’ requirements (including AFD, EIB, Proparco, the World Bank group and in particular IFC).
Prior to joining Pinsent Masons LLP, Léa has worked with leading international firms in Paris and Luxembourg as well as at Proparco. Léa graduated in Master 2 International Business law at Nancy 2 and obtained an LL.M. in International Maritime Law from Swansea University.
Léa's experience
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Advising Lhyfe, a leading independent producer and supplier of green hydrogen, on a strategic transaction with respect to a portfolio of green hydrogen production plants with a total capacity of 45 Mwe, comprising 4 plants in France and 2 in Germany.
- France and Germany
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising the International Finance Corporation on the financing to support the completion of the construction of hotels in Senegal, Mali and in Burkina Faso.
- Cross-border
- Hotels
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Advised a French-based multinational development finance institution, on the financing of a new poultry industry in Cameroon in cooperation with an Ivorian partner.
- Cameroon and France
- Finance
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Advising SeaWergie, an actor dedicated to marine thermal energy, and SMEG Monaco regarding innovative ocean thermal energy loops project financed by Groupe Crédit Agricole.
- France and Monaco
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising IFC on the financing made available to Oasis Group, a Portuguese economic group born in Cape Verde in the 90s and which has already experienced more than 20 years of growth in the tourism and real estate, for the maintenance and operation of their 6 hotels in Cape Verde.
- Cape Verde and Portugal
- Sport & Hospitality
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Advised the International Finance Corporation on a USD 60 million financing to six micro-finance institutions across Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso, and Madagascar.
- Cross-border
- Finance
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Advised the International Finance Corporation with landmark partnership put in place via a risk sharing agreement entered into between IFC and the fully digital bank, Orange Bank Africa to enable the MSMEs in West Africa to access financing.
- Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire
- Finance
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