Nos services juridiques

Aperçu

Chaque projet comporte son lot de particularités au niveau commercial et juridique, et pour le mener à terme, chacun de ces niveaux doit être pris en compte. Il faut donc prévoir les risques et les obstacles potentiels, et assurer un solide leadership afin que toutes les parties prenantes travaillent de concert.

Gowling WLG offre des services juridiques couvrant tous les aspects de votre projet, quelle qu'en soit la nature. À titre de chefs de file en gestion de projets juridiques, nous appliquons notre connaissance approfondie de votre milieu de travail pour traiter votre mandat dans le respect du budget et des délais impartis. Outre les questions de droit, nous pouvons jouer un rôle important pour amener les parties prenantes à transiger, veiller à ce que l'échéancier du projet soit respecté et à ce que toutes les approbations nécessaires soient obtenues.

Travaillant auprès de tous les intervenants – des gouvernements, des entrepreneurs IAC et IAGC, des concepteurs-constructeurs, des exploitants, des banques et preneurs fermes, des consultants, des mandataires des prêteurs, des créanciers, etc. – nous avons une vision globale des enjeux et nos effectifs diversifiés garantissent que vous recevrez un service intégré, quel que soit l'expertise requise ou l'endroit où celle-ci est nécessaire.

Grâce à une expertise reconnue dans tous les domaines de compétences connexes, nous fournissons à votre équipe d'infrastructure une assistance pendant toute la durée de votre projet. Notre large éventail de compétences découle de notre expérience sectorielle pointue dans des domaines comme les infrastructures en PPP, autres modes alternatifs, l'énergie sous toutes ses formes, les secteurs minier, pétrolier et gazier et tous les types de construction et d'ingénierie classiques.

Voici un aperçu des services que nous offrons :

Approvisionnement : appels de qualification, appels de propositions, processus de sélection et de décision, différends liés à l'approvisionnement
Conseils aux autorités gouvernementales et de réglementation
Construction et ingénierie
Droits et aménagement fonciers : acquisitions, location, permis, expropriation, zonage
Élaboration, rédaction et négociation de tous types de contrats, de concession, de construction, d'exploitation, de maintenance et de gestion
Financement de projets (titres d'emprunt et avoirs propres)
Planification de projets et stratégies de réalisation
Règlement de différends
Structuration de sociétés de projet

Avant, pendant ou après l'élaboration et la construction de votre projet, notre équipe peut vous aider à vendre ce dernier ou à le monétiser. Inversement, que vous soyez un acquéreur stratégique ou financier, nous pouvons vous aider pour l'acquisition d'un projet, quel que soit son stade de développement.

Présents dans le monde entier, nous sommes en mesure de traiter les complications qui peuvent survenir dans le contexte de projets transfrontaliers. Peu importe le lieu où se déroulent vos activités, vous pouvez nous faire confiance pour une gestion efficiente et efficace de votre projet.

Pour découvrir nos services, n'hésitez pas à communiquer avec un membre de notre équipe.

Personnes-ressources

Edward (Ted) G. Betts Associé - Toronto

Stephen C Kenny Partner - Birmingham

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Projects and public law

If you're connected with public law in any way, you likely realise just how complex, awkward and difficult to understand EU and French rules can be. Getting it right isn't easy - and it's not likely to get any simpler in the future.

That's why you need lawyers who can cut through the complexity and deliver clear, effective legal solutions.

Gowling WLG provides that clarity. We offer advice and assist in disputes involving both large-scale public operations - from social, transport and energy infrastructure to networks and defence equipment supply chains - and the more traditional fields of regulatory public law, such as urban planning, environment, energy, health, NTIC, transportation, broadcasting, state aids and more.

Our team works on behalf of both public and private clients, and is seamlessly integrated with firm colleagues in real estate, finance, tax and corporate. This allows us to offer you a specialist focus on public-private partnerships (PPPs), public service delegations (PSDs) and public real estate operations.

Areas we cover include:

Financing of public facilities and infrastructures
Institutional public-private and other partnerships
Long-term administrative leases and public domain occupancy
Partnership contracts and concessions
Public procurement contracts (global and complex)
Public bond issues, loan guarantees
Public international law
Urban planning and development
Environment
Expropriation and pre-emption right
Regulated sectors: energy, health, broadcasting, transportation
State aids

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Cut through complexity. Our team is ready and here to help you succeed with your projects.

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When it comes to choosing lawyers to handle large, complex projects anywhere in the world, Gowling WLG offers a winning combination:

Experience - we advise on the most challenging and complex infrastructure and PPP projects being undertaken in the UK and internationally.
Trusted advisers - our lawyers are established advisers to government bodies, contractors, sponsors and funders, and have a strong track record of delivering strategically important and high value projects.
Commercial - we understand the full range of procurement models and advise on bid tactics and strategic procurement issues. Our team regularly advises on the sale and purchase of equity in PFI/PPP projects, different contracting structures including PFI/PPP, alliancing and partnering, wider markets initiative, outsourcing, prime contracting and long-term collaboration agreements.

PFI/PPP

Ranked a first tier firm by Legal 500, we benchmark international best practice from our experience in the UK (which is a world leader in PFI and PPP) added to our work in the Middle East and Africa on PPP projects.

Team members have acted for the UK Government for nearly 20 years and have successfully closed a number of PPPs for the Department of Health Commercial Directorate, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Defence.

Our lawyers are among the leading names for PFI/PPP work, with partner Stephen Kenny described as "... a deal doer and solution finder, and he knows a lot about the subject", while partner David Fennellis "diligent and commercial".

For international projects, partner Jonathan Brufal is considered a "great lawyer", who is "impressive, confident, articulate and knowledgeable".

Our expertise covers the following sectors:

Transport and ports

For organisations involved in transport infrastructure projects, our team has a strong track record including ports, highways, rail and light rail projects. We advised on three of the largest highways PPP schemes: the £2.7 billion Birmingham Highways PFI, the £2 billion Sheffield Highways PPP, and March's £500 million M8 Project in Scotland.

Current international mandates include advising the Government of Rwanda on the development of several trade logistics PPP projects. Our lawyers are also working with the Kenya Ports Authority on restructuring the legal and regulatory framework for the ports sector in Kenya.

We won the Kenya mandate thanks to an impressive track record of advising on domestic and international maritime transactions, including the London Gateway Port and the Dakar, New Doha and Sokhna ports development projects.

Waste

The Gowling WLG team is at the forefront of waste infrastructure development in the UK, making it the ideal choice for cutting-edge advice in this developing area. Skills and experience have been honed waste management and treatment projects, including energy from waste.

Stephen Kenny advised the South London Waste Partnership on the development of an energy-from-waste PPP at Beddington. This project won the "Best Waste/Energy/Water Project" Award at the 2013 Partnerships Awards.

Our team also advised Waste Recycling Group (part of FCC) on its successful bid to design, build and operate a landmark £145 million Energy from Waste facility for Lincolnshire County Council. Elsewhere in the UK, we act for bidders and funders on bids for waste PFI projects.

Internationally, team members advised CNM on the Bahrain Solid waste PPP project, the first project financed waste project in the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Defence

Clients choose our team for its market-leading knowledge of the defence sector, developed over time on a number of high-profile projects.

We acted for the UK Ministry of Defence on the CVF Carrier Project, the nuclear submarine programme and significant defence estates contracts. Our team also helped the MoD complete a major Air Traffic Services project to provide long-term air traffic management capability for the safe operation of all the MoD's main bases, airfields and air weapon ranges in the UK and overseas.

Further afield, our experts advised Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière d'Armement (OCCAR) on the re-negotiation of a ground-breaking contract for the development and supply of up to 170 A400M military transport aircraft from Airbus Military S.L.

Social infrastructure

Acting on PFI/PPP projects in the health, social care, leisure and, social housing and serviced accommodation sectors gives our team an in-depth understanding of the legal and commercial issues and opportunities. We advised Lovell on the £300 million North Tyneside Social Housing PFI and have extensive experience of acting on courts and secure accommodation PPP projects.

Our health expertise is bolstered by an ever-growing client list, which includes the biggest names among private sector healthcare providers, social care providers, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and the NHS. We advised the Worcestershire Acute Hospital NHS Trust on a project for the construction and operation of a new radiotherapy unit. The firm's healthcare team distinctive expertise and specialisms which set it apart from other healthcare practices.

Infrastructure clients include Abengoa, Amec, Amey, BNP Paribas, Equitix, Gloucestershire County Council, Government of Rwanda, Government of Kenya, Health Authority of Abu Dhabi, International Finance Corporate, London Borough of Croydon, Ministry of Defence, Morgan Sindall, National Health Service, Shropshire Council, South London Waste Partnership and TradeMark East Africa.

Recognition

The Projects team won the award for Infrastructure Projects Team of the Year category at The Lawyer 2017 after advising South London Waste Partnership on a programme of infrastructure works that will deliver significant investment in waste treatment infrastructure (including Energy from Waste) on one of the largest municipal waste services programmes in Europe.