Thierry Laloum Partner MAIN OFFICE: Paris Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 21-23 rue de la Ville l'Evêque 75008 Paris, France T +33 1 53 43 4514 F +33 1 40 06 9606

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Thierry Laloum is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris, specializing in public law and public financing.

Mr. Laloum advises both public (public bodies, local governments, semi-publicly owned companies) and private entities (mainly financial institutions and public works companies). Significant projects he has handled include the development of underground trains, high speed railway lines, motorways, hospitals, stadiums, and waste treatment facilities among others, including in the context of Public Private Partnerships (PPP). Most recently, Mr. Laloum advised Autostrade per l’Italia and its parent company, Atlantia, on the financing and industrial contracts of the Eco-tax Project (PPP), a project representing €2.7 billion in revenue for the client, and served as special legal advisor to the European Investment Bank on various administrative law issues related to its €1.2 billion contribution to the global project financing for the South Europe Atlantic High Speed Rail Line between Tours and Bordeaux, France. He also recently advised the following lenders on the public law aspects of new stadiums: SMBC Europe Limited and Dexia Crédit Local on the new €219 million 30-year PPP agreement between the consortium Stade Bordeaux Atlantique and the city of Bordeaux for the 40,000-seat Bordeaux Stadium scheduled to open in 2015; and SMBC Europe Limited, Société Générale, Crédit Agricole CIB, and BBVA-Succursale de Paris on €245 million, 30-year PPP concession agreement between the city of Nice and the Nice Eco Stadium consortium for a 35,000-seat, environmentally sustainable stadium scheduled to open in 2013. Additionally, Mr. Laloum advised the project sponsors—construction company Bouygues and Barclays European Infrastructure Project fund—and the project company Lylopolis on the administrative aspects involved with the 22-year PPP financing and industrial contracts for the €85 million design, financing, demolition and reconstruction, technical operation and maintenance of two high schools in France’s Lorraine region. Prior to these matters, Mr. Laloum advised a consortium formed by Vinci Concessions, Vinci Energies, AXA IM, SFR and TDF in connection with the €1 billion financing of the GSM-Rail project (design, construction, deployment of a GSM telecom network dedicated to the French national railway system) -- a deal that was named PFI’s "Europe Telecoms Deal of the Year" for 2010.

Chambers Europe 2011 ranks Mr. Laloum in the number one tier for leading individuals practicing in the area of Administrative & Public Law and in the number 1 tier for PFI/PPP.

Mr. Laloum speaks French and English.

Prior to joining Willkie in 2010, Mr. Laloum was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP since 2001, where he was the head of the Public Law and Environmental Department in Paris.