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Mehdi Haroun specializes in a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, particularly in the energy (oil & gas, power) and infrastructure sectors (major infrastructure projects), covering France, North Africa and Francophone Africa. A partner in our Paris office, Mehdi is both a transactional and dispute lawyer, splitting his time equally between the two.
Mehdi is one of the few partners in an international law firm to be qualified to practice both in France and Algeria. He works with leading energy and infrastructure clients on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and restructurings, as well as on project development and dispute resolution relating specifically to these areas.
Mehdi has extensive experience in upstream oil and gas, including large unconventional projects, as well as midstream and downstream (refineries, fertilizer plants, LNG, etc.). He has also worked on several power projects, both on conventional (various IPPs and IWPPs in North Africa and France) and renewables (PV, CSP, Biomass, Wind and Hydro), and also on nuclear projects in France. He advises throughout the energy value chain, from company/asset acquisition or divestiture as well as greenfield/brownfield project development and when related disputes arise. He also advised on several infrastructure and industrial projects in France and North Africa, mainly in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya advising both owners, developers and EPC contractors. His experience covers railway, motorway and airport infrastructures as well as maritime transportation but also food, beverages and cigarettes sectors.
Mehdi began his career in 1994 as a dispute lawyer and has continuously been involved in international disputes. He focuses on arbitrations relating to energy, industrial and transport infrastructure, EPC contracts, shareholders disputes as well as production sharing or concession agreements and unitization agreements and has been involved in several international arbitrations under ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and ad hoc arbitration rules.
Fluent in French, English and Arabic, Mehdi served as Algeria’s representative at the ICC International Court of Arbitration for four years and is currently a member of the board of the Franco-Arab Center of Mediation and Arbitration and a member of the Center of Arbitration of the Algerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACI). He was on the committee that drafted the rules of arbitration of the CACI arbitration center.
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