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Francois Tenailleau
Partner

François Tenailleau

Languages
  • French
  • English
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François Tenailleau joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1998 and was co-opted as a partner in 2010.

He practices public business law and in particular in the following areas: public contracts (including public procurement contracts, concessions, public-private partnerships, agreements relating to the occupancy of the public domain, complex contractual arrangements) and other public law matters: public property law, financing of public entities, public and parapublic institutions, social housing and state aids.

He heads the Infrastructure practice.

He is recognized as an expert in his field and is regularly consulted by French government authorities and professional organizations. In particular, he was a member of the group of experts associated with the drafting of the French public procurement code and was involved in  the group in charge of the revision of standard clauses applicable to public procurement contracts.

Awards & Recognitions
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    Best Lawyer, Administrative Law
    Best Lawyers 2024
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    Best Lawyer, Public Law
    Best Lawyers 2024
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    Public Law
    Chambers Europe 2023

Relevant experience

  • Lecturer on the Master's degree course in public business law at the Sorbonne Law School (University of Paris I) from 2016

Relevant operations:

Project

  • Centre aquatique Olympique de la Plaine Saulnier: advised the lenders relating to the consortium held by Bouygues Bâtiment during the bid for the concession contract for the construction and operation of the centre;
  • Issy-les-Moulineaux heating and cooling network: advice to Veolia Environnement in connection with the award of a concession contract for the construction and operation of a network for the production and distribution of heating and cooling energy from the recovery of heat from the wastewater collector;
  • Port concession of Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais: advised the sponsors then the concessionaire both during the tender procedure for the renovation of the port (€ 900 million investment) and the performance of the works and the operation of the port;
  • Innovative biomass power plant and co-generation: advised Européenne Biomasse, Meridiam and Caisse des Dépôts for an innovative project located in Pomacle.

Litigation

  • Ecotax for heavy goods vehicles: assistance to an authorised electronic toll collection company (a joint subsidiary of Eiffage and Vinci) within the framework of the litigation against the French State following the termination of the partnership contract relating to the ecotax for heavy goods vehicles. The French State was ordered to compensate the company by the administrative court of appeal of Versailles.
  • For a bank: support in the context of a dispute for the payment of sums owed by the French State in reimbursement of pre-financing provided by the bank for subsidised agricultural loans (from lower administrative court to the Conseil d’Etat after referral to the administrative court of appeal and second appeal before the Conseil d’Etat)
  • Public procurement contract relating to an administrative complex (cité administrative): cancellation of the award procedure on behalf of a construction group in the framework of pre-contractual summary proceedings (référé précontractuel).

Publications

  • L’autoconsommation facilitée par la loi EnR, Le Moniteur, 14 april 2023
  • Loi ouvrant le tiers financement pour favoriser les travaux de rénovation énergétique : une nouvelle forme expérimentale de contrat de performance énergétique à paiement différé, La Semaine Juridique - Administrations et collectivités territoriales, JCP – LexisNexis ,Numéro 15,  17 April 2023
  • Contrats de performance énergétique, Jurisclasseur
  • Marchés Globaux, Juriclasseur
  • Bail emphytéotique (with Jean-Luc Tixier), Encyclopédie Dalloz
  • Loi 3DS et décentralisation des routes nationales : risques et opportunités, Le Moniteur, 22 april 2022
  • Exclusion automatique des marchés publics en raison de certaines infractions pénales : les parades (withThomas Carenzi), Le Moniteur web, 31 january 2022
  • Les contrats de service public de transport ferroviaire de voyageurs (with Kawthar Ben Khelil), JCP A, 14 December 2020
  • Théorie de l’imprévision, mode d’emploi, Le Moniteur, 16 October 2020

Memberships & Roles

  • Member of the French Expertise Centre for the observation of PPPs (Centre d’Expertise Français pour l’Observation des Partenariats Public-Privé (CEF-O-PPP))
  • Member of the network Public Contracts in Legal Globalization

Education

  • Certificate in Public Law - 2003
  • Institute of Public Business Law, University Paris-Saclay – 1998
  • Postgraduate degree in public law (Urban planning, Utilities) from University Paris I – 1996