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Profile
Clément Marchaj advises and litigates for French and international public institutions as well as economic and financial operators on business public law (public contracts, concessions, PPPs, complex agreements, urban planning, etc.), energy and environment law, and on project development and finance (energy and infrastructures) in France and abroad.
Specialising in public policy and public affairs, he advises at the crossroads between the public and private sectors, with a particular interest in technical issues involving science and technology, like energy, including carbon offset projects and renewable hydrogen projects. He previously worked for a year in English-speaking negotiation of international contracts for energy and infrastructure projects development and finance, within a world-wide leading American law firm, having also worked for French law firms and the French energy company EDF.
Before committing to practice as attorney-at-law, he was in-house lawyer, specialising in private law public procurement, and a public purchaser in the scientific research sector, having worked with French public officials and in the institutional sector, in particular within the French Ministry of the Interior, with significant regulatory experience in France.
He teaches and does research in various universities and schools in France and abroad, particularly in the fields of Public law and European law at master’s degree and postgraduate levels.
Specialising in public policy and public affairs, he advises at the crossroads between the public and private sectors, with a particular interest in technical issues involving science and technology, like energy, including carbon offset projects and renewable hydrogen projects. He previously worked for a year in English-speaking negotiation of international contracts for energy and infrastructure projects development and finance, within a world-wide leading American law firm, having also worked for French law firms and the French energy company EDF.
Before committing to practice as attorney-at-law, he was in-house lawyer, specialising in private law public procurement, and a public purchaser in the scientific research sector, having worked with French public officials and in the institutional sector, in particular within the French Ministry of the Interior, with significant regulatory experience in France.
He teaches and does research in various universities and schools in France and abroad, particularly in the fields of Public law and European law at master’s degree and postgraduate levels.
Bar Admissions
LAWYER SINCE : 2023
BAR. : Paris
Education
CAPA – Paris Professional Bar Training Centre
LL.M. Competition law – King’s College London (high merit)
MS International Business Law and Management – ESSEC Business School (vice major)
Master 2 Public Affairs – jointly managed by University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Ecole normale supérieure (Ulm) (merit)
Master 2 Fundamental Public Law – University of Bordeaux (Montesquieu Bordeaux IV) (merit)
Former trainee engineer (Grande Ecole) and former student of specialised mathematics and advanced mathematics programmes in France
