Annabelle Woerth
Annabelle is a corporate transactional lawyer specialised in complex, large-scale mining, oil & gas and energy (power, hydrogen, batteries) transactions, with a particular focus on Africa and Europe.
Annabelle has more than 10 years’ experience advising domestic and international corporate and private capital clients on cross-border M&A, joint ventures and strategic projects.
Her experience includes advising on transaction structuring; carve-ins and carve-outs; legal and regulatory risk identification and mitigation; investment strategy and protection. She regularly advises on and negotiates mining conventions, production sharing agreements, concession agreements, shareholders' agreements, infrastructure agreements, offtake agreements and new mining and oil & gas regimes.
She is dual qualified in Australian and French law and brings a distinctive combination of civil law and common law training and experience.
She is fully bilingual in French and English and recognised for her ability to lead negotiations and drafting sessions seamlessly in both languages.
She has a multidisciplinary background spanning corporate law, tax, finance and accounting, enabling her to provide commercially grounded advice that integrates legal, regulatory, fiscal and valuation considerations.
She has been ranked as a Rising Star for Africa M&A by Law.com in 2026.
She works in our Energy and Infrastructure team in Paris.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- Emirates Global Aluminium in relation to the negotiation of its bauxite mining convention in Guinea, pre-litigious matters and its interest in Guinea Aluminium Corporation
- Sumitomo Corporation on the sale of its interests in the Ambatovy nickel and cobalt mine project in Madagascar
- subsidiaries of Kinross Gold Corporation on various matters relating to their gold mining operations in Ghana and Mauritania
- Maurel et Prom in relation to upstream oil and gas assets in various countries, including Angola, Gabon, Nigeria, Tanzania (takeover of listed company, Wentworth) and Tanzania
- EDF on LNG sale and purchase matters
- a major international oil and gas group on designing a framework for cross-border gas sales, including commercial and regulatory agreements and permitting
- a major European utility company on its investment in green hydrogen projects in North Africa, including joint development agreements, host government agreements, and full country overview of investment risks and protections
- various major gold and critical minerals and oil & gas groups on the negotiation of key project documents (investment agreements, mining conventions, offtake agreements, PSCs), M&A activities, operations and project development, spanning the entire value chain, in over 30 jurisdictions in Africa as well as elsewhere globally
- ENGIE on the prior reorganisation and subsequent sale of Equans, a global multi-technical services provider, to Bouygues for EUR 7.1 billion
- Vivendi on its sale of 10% shares in Universal Music Group to China-based Tencent consortium for EUR 30 billion*
- Lafarge and Holcim on their cross-border mergers*
- various groups (including Sojitz, Willis Towers Watson, Imerys*, Consolis*, CVC*, Lafarge*, Equistone*, Zentiva*, Advent International*, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR)*) on internal cross-border reorganisations and M&A
- a number of companies, including SAMSIC, Chargeurs and SEFAM, on their investments into the UK
* Experience acquired prior to joining the firm
Sectors
Services
Background
Annabelle is admitted as an Avocat of the Paris bar (2020) and a Solicitor of the Sydney bar (2012). She has a Corporate Tax Master from Paris-Dauphine University (2016), Postgraduate Certificates in Accounting from Chartered Accountants ANZ (2011). Annabelle attended Northwestern University – LLM Hons (USA, 2009) and Bond University – LLB/BCom Hons (Australia, 2006-2009).
