Allison Soilihi

Before joining Morgan Lewis, Allison worked in the energy department of another international law firm in Paris. Prior to that, she was a legal and tax adviser for a major oil and gas company in France and Egypt. Allison holds the Certificat d’Aptitude à la Profession d’Avocat from the Bar Association of Paris (France); a specialized master's degree, with honors, in international business law and management from ESSEC Business School (France); a postgraduate law degree, with honors, in tax law; and a specialized university graduate degree in business law, taxation, and accountancy from Aix-en-Provence Law University (France). She is dually qualified in France and in England and Wales, and is fluent in English, French, and Spanish.

Project Finance, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources

• Zero Degrees Whitetail Development Ltd., an English subsidiary of US clean energy innovation firm 8Rivers Capital, in connection with its collaboration agreement with Singapore-based Sembcorp
• York Energy, a UK affiliate of US-based Alpha Energy, in the execution of an oil and gas production sharing agreement with Ukraine
• York Energy (UK) Holdings Ltd., a subsidiary of a US-based oil and gas company, in the sale of its Third Energy affiliated group to Wolfland Group
• Norilsk Nickel on a large new platinum and palladium mining joint venture in Russia’s Arctic region with Russian Palladium
• An oil and gas major in connection with an auction bid process for acquisition of the ExxonMobil and Chevron stakes in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) oilfield project in Azerbaijan and the related Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline company
• Major oil and gas companies in negotiations of production sharing agreements and related amendments in Niger and Chad, respectively
• A major oil and gas company in connection with the construction and operation of an export pipeline in Chad (transportation contracts, interstate bilateral agreements, agreements relating to the construction of the pipelines, etc.)
• A major oil and gas company in its partial sale of participating interest in an upstream project in Niger
• A major oil and gas company in the context of disputes before local courts in Niger and OHADA arbitration court in Abidjan
• A major oil and gas company in the context of drafting crude oil and refined products supply conventions in Niger
• Major oil and gas companies in connection with the drafting of joint operating agreements in Niger and in Chad, respectively
• Major oil and gas companies in connection with the audit of their petroleum costs related to a production sharing agreement and license agreement in Niger and Chad, respectively
• A major oil and gas company in the process of renewal of its exploration license and granting of a new exploitation license in Niger
• A major oil and gas company in connection with the financing of a refinery in Niger
• A major oil and gas company in connection with drafting a study and bid agreement in Niger
• A major oil and gas company in drafting the corporate documentation of an export pipeline company in Niger
• Major oil and gas companies in connection with the drafting of lifting agreements in Niger and Chad, respectively
• An oil company in connection with drafting a production sharing agreement in the Comoros
• A major oil company in connection with its withdrawal from a block in Tanzania
• A major oil company in connection with analyzing the legal and regulatory framework and production sharing agreement regime in Congo-Brazzaville regarding the company’s contemplated acquisition of assets
• An independent North American company in connection with various issues relating to its interest in oil blocks in Gabon and Côte d’Ivoire
• A consulting company specialized in energy in connection with a broker agreement in Côte d’Ivoire
• A German technical service provider for the oil and gas industry in connection with a tender procedure in Congo
• A geophysical company in connection with a dispute with the customs authorities in Algeria
• A major oil company in connection with the company’s contemplated acquisition of assets in Algeria
• A major oil and gas company in connection with its contemplated acquisition of assets in Senegal
• A major oil and gas company on the impact of the OHADA legislation on its activities in Senegal

Corporate and M&A

• Winter Capital Partners, a private equity client, on two early-stage tech investments
• Takeda Ventures in the $46.4 million Series A financing of Egle Therapeutics
• Shiseido Americas Corp., a subsidiary of Shiseido Co. Ltd., in connection with the global carveout and approximately $700 million sale of bareMinerals, BUXOM, and Laura Mercier to Advent International
• US investor in its acquisition of a French cybersecurity startup
• OpenGate Capital in its acquisition of the ScioTeq and TREALITY Simulation
• Sequoia Capital China Advisors Limited, an investment management company, regarding a proposed equity investment in D’Estrée, a French fashion startup
• Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp., a global medical technology company focused on regenerative technologies, neurosurgical, and extremity orthopedic solutions, in connection with the sale of its Extremity Orthopedics business to Smith+Nephew for $240 million
• Alpha Energy, a US investor, in its acquisition of Third Energy’s onshore gas exploration and production asset in the United Kingdom
• Sandvik AB, a high-tech and global engineering company, in an agreement to sell its Varel International Energy Services business to Blue Water Energy
• CRH plc, a building and public works company, in connection with its asset acquisition from Lafarge and Holcim in France
• Mathematica Policy Research Inc, a global research and data collection group, on its acquisition of a UK company
• Russia Partners Technology Fund LP in connection with an investment in Series E Preferred Shares of an ecommerce group
• New Science Ventures LLC, a venture capital firm, in connection with a Series C preferred stock financing
• SoLocal Group, a European leader in local online communications, in connection with the acquisition of Effilab SAS in France