Conference organized by Club Mines Finance, in association with Ponts Finance and Télécoms Finance
With
Stéphane Woerther, Managing Director, Head of Project and Climate Finance at FTI Consulting
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Francois April, Project Finance Partner at Linklaters (Energy & Infrastructure team)
The urgency of climate change requires us to rapidly decarbonize our economies, which in turn requires massive infrastructure development to ensure the energy transition. Drawing on their respective experience in the development, financing and restructuring of major infrastructure projects, Stéphane Woerther, from the economic and financial consulting firm FTI Consulting, and François April, from the law firm Linklaters, will share their respective experiences, as well as the main lessons they have learned. In particular, they will explore the main challenges encountered and the keys to success in financing the immense capital requirements associated with the development of infrastructures to ensure the energy transition.
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Stéphane Woerther is an Ingénieur Civil des Mines and holds a DEA in Energy Economics from IFP-School / Université Paris Assas.
For over 20 years, Stéphane Woerther has advised governments, public and private companies and financial institutions on the development and financing of energy projects worldwide. After working for several years at Lazard and then running his own consulting firm, he then joined FTI Consulting, where he manages the Project Finance and Climate Finance activities, both on consulting mandates and as an expert in international arbitration.
He has been involved in a number of structuring and innovative projects, such as the setting up of an investment vehicle to finance interconnections between offshore wind farms in the North Sea, debt restructuring of power projects in Africa, portfolio financing for solar projects in Europe and the auctioning of solar-based urban network concessions in the DRC. He is also involved in a growing number of climate finance issues, such as the setting up of carbon credit funds, or litigation associated with the carbon credit market. He teaches project finance and climate economics at the École des Mines, IFP School and Université Paris Dauphine.
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Francois April
Francois April is a graduate of the University of Ottawa (Canada) and University College London, and is a member of the Paris and Quebec Bars and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He was an associate in the legal department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, before joining the international law firm Linklaters LLP, where he has been a partner in the firm's energy and infrastructure team in Paris since 2008. He is a recognized specialist in energy, infrastructure and mining projects, with a particular focus on renewable energies and energy transition. He has been involved in numerous major project financings, including the first offshore wind farm projects to reach financial close in France, the financing of the first French gigafactories, energy storage capacities in France and Finland, the Koniambo mining project in New Caledonia, and numerous solar and onshore wind farm projects.
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