Jean-Eric Sauzier is a Partner at BLC Robert & Associates, heading the Banking and Finance team. Distinguished as a “leading lawyer” by IFLR1000, he specialises in Banking, Project Finance and Insolvency. He possesses long standing expertise in the fields of energy, real estate, hospitality and information technology.

He is regularly instructed by major banking corporations and financial institutions on both domestic and cross-border financing. His work starts as early as providing preliminary advice on the structuring of the debt, identifying key legal risks and defining key terms and conditions pertinent to the type of assets and financing at hand.

His sector expertise on various asset classes allows him to provide lenders with an enhanced insight on key terms of lending. He also provides more transactional support to lenders, DFIs and corporate creditors by assisting in credit evaluation as well as the preparation of subsequent finance, security and disbursement documentation. He is also often solicited by sophisticated borrowers and industry operators for purposes of providing assistance in the raising of their debt financing, negotiation of conditions of same and assisting them towards completing their financial closings.

In the infrastructure and projects sphere, he has acted for both governmental bodies as well as procurement bidders and private parties. He is quite specialised in the area of energy, where he is solicited by energy operators as well as  by financial institutions looking forward to financing energy assets, both in Mauritius and in African continent. He has also been involved in the development and financing of other types of projects/assets which include road infrastructure, water distribution, waste management facilities, petroleum storage – to name a few. He also has substantial experience in the hospitality financing space, having worked on the financing of hotels and resorts both locally and overseas and has similarly been involved in both local and foreign real estate projects. Some of his past public sector finance work has been seen as having economic strategic importance – such work includes the drafting of financial instruments which allowed for the granting of COVID financing support to various corporates and industry players which the Government of Mauritius considered as having strategic economic value.

Areas of Expertise

•  Banking

•  Project Finance

•  Insolvency

•  Hospitality

•  Real Estate

•  Information Technology and Intellectual Property

Accolades

•  Distinguished as a “Leading Lawyer” by IFLR1000

•  Sweet and Maxwell International Arbitration Law Review, 3(3), pp114-121 “From arbitrator’s immunity to the fifth theory of international                commercial arbitration” (2000)

•  Euromoney Prize for “Outstanding LLM Trade Finance Performance” (2000)

•  Sweet & Maxwell Prize for “Best LLB Overall Performance” (1999)

•  London Institute of Directors Prize for “Best LLB Company Law Performance” (1999)

•  Recognized as ‘’leading individual’’ by Legal 500 EMEA 2021