Paul Elfassi has been a lawyer since 2000 and a partner at BCTG Avocats since 2014. His practice focuses mainly on energy law, environmental and urban planning law, mining law and public business law.

His core business is to support the development of industrial or infrastructure projects that raise complex issues and to provide the project with legal solutions that are cutting edge and pragmatic.

Paul has developed cross-disciplinary expertise in energy law (solar, onshore and offshore wind, land-based and floating, hydro-electricity, cogeneration and biomass, hydrogen, storage), which enables him to assist his clients at the various stages of their projects: development, construction, operation (including due diligence in the context of setting up the related financing).

With his team of 6 associates who are specialists in public law, he also manages a large number of disputes before the administrative courts and sectoral bodies (CORDIS, etc.).

He co-manages the firm’s Energy Department consisting of 16 lawyers.

Paul is also ranked in Le Point, Décideurs – Leaders League, Chambers, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal and also in the prestigious Best Lawyers ranking in the categories of “Administrative law”, “Energy law” and “Environment law”.

Education

• Institut de droit public des affaires
• DEA in public law – University of Paris II Panthéon

Did you know?

• Paul is member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Renewal Energies (Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables (SER))
• Paul is President of the regulatory division of SER’s Wind Energy Commission
• Student of the 46th promotion of the “Independent Company Director” delivered by the French Institute of Directors and Sc Po Paris