“Excellent lawyer, reliable and very proficient. He provides great support in helping clients find the best solutions.’
Biography
Amaury de Feydeau is a partner in the Paris office's Project Development & Finance team of White & Case. He has over 20 years' experience representing clients in all aspects of project finance, real estate finance, structured finance and restructuring.
Ranked as a leading lawyer in his field by top legal directories, Chambers Europe, Legal 500, IFLR, he is described by his clients as "creative and a real solution-finder" (Chambers). Amaury's reputation is enhanced by a record of transactions advising arrangers and sponsors on complex energy, infrastructure, telecom and real estate projects in France and abroad.
He is regularly involved in drafting complex agreements for the financing of the public facilities of infrastructure, renewable energy, power plants, telecom grids projects.
Amaury is a frequent visiting lecturer at the business school HEC where he lectures on Real Estate Finance.
Amaury joined the Firm in February 2020 from an international law firm in Paris where he was Partner in the Banking & Finance group.
Experience
Recent representative transactions include:
- Iliad: Representation of the lenders on a €650 million senior financing for OpCore, a joint venture between the iliad Group and InfraVia created to develop a major independent European hyperscale data center platform.
- Melqart: Representation of the lenders on a US$148 million financing for Borealis Data Center, which is 92.2 percent owned by Vauban Infrastructure Partners through its Fund Core Infrastructure Fund III SCS SICAV-SIF.
- Innergex: Representation of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) in connection with the French aspects of the definitive agreement entered into with Innergex Renewable Energy Inc., a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, for the acquisition by CDPQ of all of the shares of Innergex.
- Cellnex: Representation of the lenders on the financing for the acquisition of 100% of Cellnex's business in Austria.
- Vesta: Representation of lenders and bond subscribers in relation to the €606m refinancing of the existing debt of Proxiserve (a leading energy services player) and financing of Proxiserve's capex and working capital requirements.
- Nancy/Contrexéville: Representation of a consortium (Transdev, NGE and Caisse des dépôts et consignations) in the context of a tender process organized by the Grand-Est Region regarding the award of a concession relating to the financing, refurbishment, operation and maintenance of a railway line between Nancy and Contrexéville.
- Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners: Representation of Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, a private infrastructure investment platform within Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), on an exclusivity agreement to partner with Altice France to establish the first nationwide independent colocation provider in France through the acquisition of a 70 percent majority stake in UltraEdge, a newly established data center company.
- Jpee: Representation of Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, a French financial institution, on its equity investment in JP Energie Environnement, a French independent producer of renewable energy (through direct equity investment, roll-over of existing participations and direct acquisition of shares), valuating JP Energie Environnement at c. EUR 900 million.
- Project Snow Lion: Representation of Vauban Infrastructure Partners on the 100% acquisition from Green Investment Group of Nordic Renewable Power Holding, a portfolio of three wind farms in Norway and Sweden with 40 wind turbines and an aggregated capacity of approximately 170MW.
- CEGELOG: Representation of Eiffage and Groupe Arcade-Vyv on the first concession contract granted in France for outsourced management of a housing estate owned by the Ministry of Armed Forces for a total amount of more than €7 billion.
Ranked Band 3 in Chambers Europe 2021, Projects & Energy: Domestic: Finance - France
Ranked Notable Practitioner in IFLR 1000 2021, categories Banking, Capital Markets (Debt, Structured Finance & Securitisation), Real Estate, Restructuring & Insolvency
Le droit des contrats réformé, Fauves Edition, 2016
Le droit des contrats réformé (édition revue et augmentée), Fauves Edition, 2018