Pierre Sikorav
CounselPierre is a recognized specialist in public law. He advises domestic and international clients on a wide array of public law issues, including administrative law, constitutional law, and EU law. His expertise covers project development, public procurement and contracts, public sector financing, and sector-specific regulations.
Pierre has worked on numerous international projects in France and Africa in a variety of sectors, including defense, energy, transportation, mining, and telecommunications.
He also regularly acts in litigation before administrative and judicial courts, as well as in dispute resolution before regulatory authorities.
Pierre is a member of the Paris and New York bars and has practiced since 2012 in two leading international law firms. Pierre has been listed in Legal 500 EMEA in administrative and public law since 2024.
Pierre is a lecturer at the University Paris II Panthéon Assas and former lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. He has spoken at numerous seminars dealing with various law topics and has also published several articles in LexisNexis.
EXPERIENCE
- Advised Rio Tinto in relation to the Simandou iron ore mining project in Guinea.*
- Advising and representing a leading mobile payment service provided in its negotiations with the public transport authority in the Paris region, concerning the implementation of a mobile payment service.*
- Counsel to the French agency responsible for managing the French State’s shareholdings in companies of strategic importance.*
- Advising an American multinational investment bank and financial services company in relation to the discussions before the French Parliament on a draft legislation on financial attractiveness.*
- Represented a French multinational corporation in several private enforcement actions initiated by direct and indirect customers further to a decision of the French Competition Authority.*
- Advised several bidders (institutional investor / investment fund) in the sale of a portfolio of local telecommunications networks in low or medium density zones.*
- Advised an international payment service provider in the context of corporate fleet electrification, by giving an overview of the legal regime applicable to EV charging in France.*
- Advising an international developer of energy management solutions manage the energy market crisis and its contractual relationships.*
- Representing a gas storage operator in a dispute regarding the provision of construction services and planning for the installation of underground natural gas storage facilities.*
- Advising several clients in all aspects relating to the obtaining of the approval of the minister for the economy in relation to foreign investment control in France.*
*previous law firm
- French
- English