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Jérôme Michel heads the firm’s Public Sector Law / Projects department.
After gaining initial professional experience with Cleary Gottlieb, then with Allen & Overy in London, he joined the firm Salès Vincent Georges & Associés in 1990, where he became a partner in 1997.
A partner with Franklin since 2000, he has developed specific expertise advising public sector companies and other public entities, as well as governments, on issues relating to acquisitions and transfers of state-owned companies, diversification of the operations of public entities, as well as privatizations. He also advises local government authorities and private sector companies on public contracts and procurements, land and city planning, as well as administrative litigation matters.
He is active in the field of French and European competition law (mergers, unfair competition practices), in particular in handling public law cases.
Jérôme Michel has widely recognized expertise in major contracts and institutional reform projects, advising major French and foreign companies as well as governments and international institutions. He has participated in the setting-up and negotiation of energy projects (BOT, IPP) or infrastructure projects in France, Latin America and Asia, and of institutional reform projects in Eastern Europe and Africa.
Jérôme Michel is a member of the “public procurement” committee and of the “Public-Private Partnerships” working group of the MEDEF (French Employers’ association). He is a frequent lecturer on these issues in France and abroad.
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