Driss Bererhi
Partner
Paris
Driss Bererhi
Partner
Paris
Contact details
Driss Bererhi is a specialist in banking and financing law, with a specific expertise in the infrastructure and energy sectors. He advises borrowers, financial institutions, funds, industrial companies, corporates and governments on project/PPP, acquisition and bond financing transactions and general banking/finance regulation issues.
He is very active in the infrastructure, transportation, energy and telecom sectors, in Europe, MENA and Africa.
Driss is a recognised practitioner by « Best Lawyers » since 2019 in Banking and Finance Law
Leading Individual
Legal 500 EMEA 2023 - France (Project Finance)
Band 2
Chambers Europe 2023 - France (Projects & Energy: Domestic)
Band 2
Chambers Europe 2023 - France (Projects & Energy: International)
"Driss Bererhi has an intimate knowledge of us as a client."
"Negotiations go ahead smoothly with Driss, he is very solution-orientated."
Chambers Europe 2023 - France (Projects & Energy: International)
"‘Driss Bererhi is extremely strong technically and commercially, with vast experience in the Banking and Finance sector in general and in infrastructure project finance in particular. He is solution-oriented and has an exceptional ability to balance lenders’ and borrowers’ interests. He is very responsive and trustworthy. Also, the tandem with Counsel Tzvetomira Pacheva and Associate Aïda Lamrani makes the team unbeatable."
Legal500 EMEA France 2023 (Project Finance)
Band 2
Chambers Europe 2022 - France (Projects & Energy: Domestic)
"Driss Bererhi is head of Allen & Overy's projects and infrastructure finance practice in Paris. He assists with the financing and refinancing of domestic concessions and projects. He also has experience advising on acquisitions and joint ventures. A pleased client describes Driss Bererhi as "very skilled and very good at finding compromises."
Chambers Europe 2022 - France (Projects & Energy: Domestic)
Leading Individual
Legal 500 EMEA 2022 - France (Project Finance)
"Driss Bererhi, in addition to being an excellent lawyer, is endowed with a great commercial sense, which allows him to disentangle inextricable situations, and to appreciate the various parameters of a transaction."
Legal 500 EMEA 2022 - France (Project Finance)
Highly regarded (Industry sectors: Energy, Social infrastructure, Transport)
IFLR 1000 2021 - France (Banking, Project Finance)
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted to the Bar, Paris, 2003
Academic
Post graduate degree, European Business Law and Banking & Finance, University of Paris V, 2000
Master, Business and Tax Law, University of Paris II, 1999
Comparative Law Institute Diploma, University of Paris II, 1999
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted to the Bar, Paris, 2003
Academic
Post graduate degree, European Business Law and Banking & Finance, University of Paris V, 2000
Master, Business and Tax Law, University of Paris II, 1999
Comparative Law Institute Diploma, University of Paris II, 1999