Jérôme Michel

Partner, Jérôme Michel heads up our Public Sector Law – Regulatory and Energy departments.

Jérôme advises public and private sector companies on public contracts, procurement and general public law, and represents them in administrative litigation.  He routinely advises on competition law issues, sales of state-owned equity interests and privatizations.  He has specialist expertise in regulated industry sectors such as telecoms and energy.

In the energy sector, Jérôme has advised companies and public bodies for over twenty-five years on power generation projects (PPA and IPP) and concession-type projects (BOT and similar), particularly in the field of renewable energy.

Jérôme has also advised numerous governments and companies (in France, Europe, Africa and Latin America) on projects, privatisations, the sale or concession of public assets, and the drafting of laws and their implementing regulations.

  • Leaders League 2024: Jérôme Michel is ranked in the Project finance: advising banks or sponsor (Excellent) category of the Projects & Infrastructure Guide
  • Leaders League 2024: Jérôme Michel is ranked in the Project financing (Valuable practice) category of the Africa Desk Guide
  • Legal 500 EMEA 2024: Jérôme Michel is ranked in the Administrative and Public law category
    ‘Good service, efficient team.’
  • Jérôme Michel is individually ranked in the US directory Best Lawyers 2025
  • Leaders League 2023: Jérôme Michel is ranked in the Administrative contracts and related litigation (Excellent), Energy: market regulation (Excellent), Market regulation (Excellent), Urban commercial planning (Highly recommended), Classified installations for environmental protection, polluted sites and soil, industrial wastelands (Highly recommended), Renewable energy law (Highly recommended), Public domain (Highly recommended), Waste management law (Recommended) and Environmental litigation (Valuable practice) categories of the Energy, Environment, Public sector & Business Guide
  • Legal 500 EMEA 2023 : Jérôme Michel is ranked Administrative an Public law et Energy.
    ‘Availability, pragmatism and business oriented.’
  • University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas : B.A. (Maîtrise) in business and tax law
  • Paris Institute of Political Studies, 1985