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Inside Infrastructure: Focus on France
Overview The Choose France 2025 summit, held from May 19 to 21, 2025 at the Château de Versailles, was marked by several major announcements. The Choose France summit aims to promote the attractiveness of France and facilitate investment commitments in the country. Since its creation in 2018, the summit has generated €87.7 bn in investments and more than 163,000 jobs. A total of 53 investment announcements were made, representing €40.8 bn.
Data Centre Investments
In recent years, the global investment landscape for data centres has reached record-breaking levels, with the market being largely dominated by US-based players, particularly private equity firms. This surge in investment reflects the critical role that data centres play in today’s digital economy. The dynamics of the data centre market are diverse, encompassing colocation, hyperscale, and edge data centres.
Offshore wind energy in the EU - what you need to know
Offshore wind energy plays a crucial role in the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. The European Commission (Commission) recognises the need for massive increase in wind capacity to 111 GW by 2030. In this blog, we outline the key upcoming developments in the EU for the offshore wind industry providing project developers, strategic investors and financial sponsors with an overview of legislative trends and market developments.
Unbundling - what you need to know
Unbundling rules in the EU may substantially shape an M&A deal in the energy sector. At a glance: Unbundling rules in Europe In the electricity and gas sectors, five main activities are subject to different organisational rules and obligations: production, transmission, distribution, supply and storage. The operation of energy transmission and distribution systems are regulated, while the activities of energy generation, storage and supply are carried out in competitive markets.
Offshore wind energy in the EU - what you need to know
Offshore wind energy plays a crucial role in the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. The European Commission (Commission) recognises the need for massive increase in wind capacity to 111 GW by 2030. In this blog, we outline the key upcoming developments in the EU for the offshore wind industry providing project developers, strategic investors and financial sponsors with an overview of legislative trends and market developments.
European Electricity Market Reform
Due to its economic characteristics - large-scale storage issues, very different cost structures between players, demand that is not very responsive to prices and is unstable in the short-term - the electricity market cannot operate like a normal economic market.
New mobility - key issues to consider
Mobility without CO2 emissions Reducing CO2 emissions from the transport sector is one of the key ambitions of policy makers – not just in the EU, but globally. To achieve this goal, significant and transformative investments in new zero-emission vehicle models, battery manufacturing capacities and – most importantly – EV charging infrastructure will be required. This offers significant opportunities, albeit under a still developing legislative framework.
Clean hydrogen - what you need to know
Opportunities and risks of a clean hydrogen economy Clean hydrogen and its derivatives are widely seen as key enablers for the decarbonisation of many hard-to-abate parts of the industrial, transport and energy sectors. Applications include chemicals, petrochemicals, steel, glass, but also shipping with hydrogen-processed methanol and ammonia, aviation with hydrogen-processed e-kerosene, and power generation with hydrogen-fired peak-load plants.
PACTE law: the latest step in the strengthening of the French State’s control over foreign investment in strategic sectors | Lexology
Published on 23 May 2019, the so-called “Pacte Law” (Loi portant Plan d’Action pour la Croissance et la Transformation des Entreprises) aims to “remove obstacles to the growth of [French] companies at all stages of their development, from their creation to their transfer, including their financing” and to “put companies back at the centre of [French] society”.
Privatization program of the French government approved by the French Supreme constitutional court | Lexology
The Conseil constitutionnel has validated several provisions of the PACTE Law, including those authorising the privatization of Aéroports de Paris and La Française des Jeux. Several members of the Parliament submitted a claim before the Conseil constitutionnel in relation to the constitutionality of the provisions of the PACTE law (the Law PACTE), which has just been validated by the French Parliament.
French State looking to intensify its control on foreign investment | Lexology
France
December 21 2018 As most G20 countries, France is currently intensifying its control on foreign investment. Under French law, investments made by non-EU investors and, to a lesser-extent, EU investors may be subject to a prior authorisation of the French Minister of Economy depending on (i) the nature of the investment, notably, the level of control sought in the French target and (ii) the sector in which said company operates.
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