François-Guilhem Vaissier is an associate in the Paris office’s "Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance" team. Before joining White & Case in January 2007, he worked for two years in a leading French law firm. 

His practice mainly includes the private sector participation (PSP) and all aspects of the structuring and financing of infrastructure and industrial and energy projects (notably regarding hydrocarbons’ exploration/production and refining), as well as their corporate law specificities. 

François-Guilhem Vaissier managed several large projects in France (railway projects, motorways, road tunnel, airport operation, co-generation plant, wind farms), Europe (underwater tunnel, water and wastewater concession), Africa (hydro-power plant and aluminum smelter project, coal-fired power plant, cement plant, motorway concession, mining concessions, free zone areas, oil production sharing agreements and privatization of a national air carrier), Asia (1st Public Private Partnership for a metro project in India) and the Middle East (airport BOT, real estate financing). Thus he gained significant practice in drafting project’s documentation relating to large transactions and in conducting legal due diligence. 

Before being called to the Paris Bar, François-Guilhem Vaissier worked eighteen months for the "International Financial Institutions Representative Office" of Suez, located in Washington, DC. As an analyst, he mainly counseled Suez’s subsidiaries Tractebel (Energy) and Ondeo (Water) and became very familiar with the World Bank Group (notably the International Finance Corporation and the International Centre for the Settlement of International Disputes), the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank’s working practices. Afterwards, he complemented his knowledge of the utilities and energy’s markets and practices by joining the team in charge of the industrial agreements at the "refining/marketing" department of Total (Oil & Gas), as in-house counsel for nine months.