Olympe Bory | People | Baker McKenzie

Biography

Olympe Bory is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie’s Energy, Mining and Infrastructure Group in London. Olympe focuses on project development in the oil and gas, power and infrastructure sectors, with a particular focus on francophone Africa. She also has experience in financing and corporate transactions.

Practice Focus

Olympe joined Baker McKenzie as a trainee solicitor in September 2010. She qualified into the Energy, Mining and Infrastructure Group in September 2012. Olympe completed client secondments at Standard Chartered Bank, Anadarko Algeria LLC, a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Rio Tinto. Recently, Olympe was seconded to Baker McKenzie's Banking & Finance team in Sydney, where she further developed her Banking & Finance practice.

Representative Legal Matters

Acted for Sound Energy Plc in relation to, among others, (1) its farm-in relating to the Tendrara permits in Morocco; (2) its farm-in with PetroMaroc relating to the Sidi Moktar permits in Morocco; and (3) its Field Management Agreement with Schlumberger in relation to the Tendrara permits.
Advised a Chinese investment fund on its bid, in an auction process, for Chevron's Myanmar upstream oil & gas assets.
Advised an AIM listed oil & gas company in relation with the acquisition of a portfolio of exploration and production concessions in Egypt and Morocco.
Acted for a national oil company on the potential acquisition of a portfolio of North Sea assets.
Advised for a junior mining company in relation to their acquisition of a majority interest in a company holding an exploration permit for bauxite in Guinea.
Acted for the Office National de l'Electricité et de l'Eau Potable of Morocco on the procurement and development of its 850 MW wind farm program on an IPP basis.
Advised KfW on the bankability of renewable energy PPAs in a number of African jurisdictions.
Assisted a major oil and gas company on its entry into a liquefaction project framework agreement and related amendments to its existing re-gasification terminal use agreement.
Acted for the Asian Development Bank in connection with the project financing of a solar farm in Samoa.
Acted for one of the largest commercial banks in Thailand in connection with a USDD 120 millilon facility for the development and operation of a coal mine in Australia.

Professional Associations and Memberships

Law Society of England and Wales
New York Bar Association
Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN)
Young Professionals in Energy (YPE)
International Project Finance Association

Admissions

Senior Courts of England & Wales~United Kingdom (2012)
New York~United States (2010)

Education

College of Law (Legal Practice Course with distinction) (2010)
New York University School of Law (LLM Corporation Law) (2009)
Essex University (LLB English Law and French Law) (2009)
University of Paris X (Nanterre) (Masters I Droits de L’Europe Major in French and Anglo-American Business Law) (2008)
University of Paris X (Nanterre) (Licence Droits de L’Europe Major in French and Anglo-American Business Law) (2007)

Languages

English
French
Spanish