Stan Andreassen

As a Corporate & Project Partner within our Paris and Casablanca offices, I offer my clients a rare, combined expertise on complex M&A transactions and strategic Projects in France, Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa.

I stand out as a practical and business-oriented lawyer, committed to working in an integrated and collaborative manner with my clients from start to finish, wherever the project may be. For each project and transaction, we provide a tailored multi-disciplinary team of world-leading sector specialists and regional experts who have worked together over many years on a number of large-scale projects and have proven processes to ensure streamlined and efficient delivery of our services.

My corporate practice focuses on private equity transactions, cross-border M&A, and joint ventures involving PE funds and leading listed or non-listed corporates in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

My Project practice covers every stage of a project's life cycle, assisting with project structuring, delivery and financing, risk analysis and management, preparation of project documentation and contract negotiation, transaction and project due diligence, equity investments and acquisition and disposal of project interest. I assist a wide range of clients, including sponsors, investment funds, banks, government and other public bodies, and financial institutions on domestic and international projects.

Over the past 15 years, including 10 years in Morocco and OHADA law countries, I have had the opportunity to work in a very wide range of sectors, including oil and gas, mining & minerals, power, renewables, water and waste, automotive and mobility, microfinance, agriculture, as well as PPP/PFI.

More recently, the energy transition and the increasing need for raw materials involved many transactions and projects relating to renewable plants with BESS, power interconnections, mining projects relating to critical minerals (lithium, copper, cobalt, etc.) and the whole value chain for electric vehicles (complex supply chain and battery recycling).

I have also been involved in an increasing number of large industrial projects in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, where we have been assisting clients in the structuring and construction of manufacturing and processing plants relating to cars and batteries, minerals processing, agro-business and FMCG products.

• Corporate / M&A:
• Advising Alpha PE, for several investments and divestments in France (2023-2024)
• Advising Vantage Infrastructure (PE Fund) in relation to the acquisition of a majority stake into Agronergy, a French green heater provider, and subsequent restructuring (2021-2024)
• Advising UK based investors on the acquisition of a junior mining company in Morocco (2024)
• Advising GOJO on the acquisition of a minority stake in Baobab, a leading international and pan-African micro-credit institution (2024)
• Advising an international leading archiving group, for several acquisitions in Morocco (2019-2023)
• Advising Clear Channel in relation to the sale of Clear Channel France (2019-2023)
• Project:
• Advising a European car manufacturer on several projects in France, South America and Morocco, aiming at securing their supply in critical raw materials and structuring their whole battery and EV supply chain (2022-2024)
• Advising a consortium of investors/developers in relation to Midelt III, a solar project of circa 400MW with BESS, in Morocco (2024)
• Advising the military branch of Tata on its investment agreement with the Kingdom of Morocco and the construction of military vehicles, in Morocco (2023-2024)
• Advising a European car manufacturer, negotiating a Corporate PPA with Green of Africa, to provide renewable energy to its Tangier and Casablanca industrial plants, in Morocco (2024)
• Advising private sponsors in relation to the construction and financing of a FMCG manufacture plant, including a hybrid solar and thermal power plant and habitations for employees on site (2023-2024)
• Advising the West African Power Pool in relation to the structuring and development of a 330 kV WAPP Nigeria – Niger – Benin/Togo – Burkina Interconnection Project (2022-2024)
• Advising the Republic of Cameroon in relation to Nachtigal project, the structuring and development of a 420 MW hydro power plant (2018-2023)