メリッサ・ケイン

About メリッサ・ケイン

Melissa specialises in foreign investment projects, sales and acquisitions and project developments, with particular emphasis on the energy sector and large-scale infrastructure, power and renewables projects and contracts with governments.

Melissa's relevant experience includes advising:

• AGL Energy – on the divestment of its digital metering business, Active Stream; the financing and sale of its 50 per cent interest in the 420MW Macarthur Wind Farm; as well as on a range of regulatory and commercial issues in connection with its retail business, new energy initiatives and operation of its assets.
• Other retailers and metering services providers – on their digital metering arrangements in the ramp up to the power of choice reforms.
• Major energy retailers including ERM Power, Tango (Pacific Hydro) and Lumo (Snowy Hydro) – on their market retail contracts and obligations to customers under the National Energy Retail Rules and the ESC's Energy Retail Code.
• The AEMC and AEMO – on interpretation and application of various provisions in the National Electricity Law.
• Corporate clients – on the terms of their corporate PPAs with renewable energy generators.
• Pacific Hydro – on its project financing for the Portland Wind Farm, including review and negotiation of the offtake arrangements.
• ERM Power – on its bid in the NSW State Government privatization of Macquarie Generation including review of the electricity supply arrangements for the Tomago Aluminium smelter.
• Rio Tinto and Oyu Tolgoi LLC – on the construction of a coal fired power station under an IPP model to support its copper/gold project in Mongolia and the associated long term power purchase agreement.
• a consortium of investors including Engie and Sojitz – on its contracts with the Mongolian government to develop a power plant in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
• Daewoo International – on a number of its existing and greenfield power plant projects in Papua New Guinea.
• the investors in the Vung Ang II power project (China Light & Power and Mitsubishi Corporation) – on all legal aspects of their investment in a 1200MW greenfield coal-fired power plant in Vietnam including the power purchase agreement between the investors and the Vietnamese Government.
• the sponsors of the Nghi Son Refinery Project (including Idemitsu) – on the US$5 billion ECA led project financing of this US$9 billion Vietnamese project awarded PFI's Petrochemical Deal of the Year 2013.
• Qantas – on its partnership with Vietnam Airlines in Jetstar Pacific.
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia – on its acquisition of a foreign strategic interest in Vietnam International Bank.
• a prominent foreign real estate services company – on its restructure of its Japanese entity following a merger.
• both lenders and borrowers – on financing in a range of high profile acquisitions and projects in Japan.
• Foreign companies – looking to set up businesses and conduct investments in Australia, Japan and Vietnam.

Melissa worked in the firm's Hanoi office from 2008 to 2012 and was seconded to Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, one of Japan's leading law firms in Tokyo from 2006 to 2008.

Melissa has very strong spoken and written Japanese language skills.