John Crothers

Company: Gide Loyrette Nouel
Position: Partner

Biography: John Crothers is a Paris-based lawyer at French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel. Crothers joined the firm in 1995.

He focuses on project finance, banking transactions and privatisations. Prior to joining Gide Loyrette Nouel, Crothers worked as legal adviser to the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development in London.

In this role, he was involved in more than 40 projects in Eastern Europe and in Russia. Gide Loyrette Nouel is advising the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy on its planned 500MW solar facility in central Ouarzazate.

The plant will use a combination of thermal solar and photovoltaic solar technology. Four groups have been prequalified to bid for the contract to build the first phase on a design, build, operate, maintain and finance basis.

Phase one will be based on concentrated solar power parabolic trough technologies. It will have a minimum capacity of 125MW.

Contact: (+33) 140 75 2924
Company website: www.gide.com