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Energy and Infrastructure Market: Our Latest Insights

Energy and Infrastructure Market: Our Latest Insights

October 31, 2018

Myanmar is undertaking a series of reforms, both in terms of laws and policies, that strengthen the country’s attractiveness for energy and infrastructure projects. Many of these reforms, although they are crucial, are not widely known outside of Myanmar.

Highlights of this note

  • Major Projects in the Pipeline
  • Reform of the Project Procurement Process: the Notice to Proceed
  • New Model Power Purchase Agreement
  • Some Terms of Myanmar Power Purchase Agreements
  • Hard Currency Tariffs?
  • Sovereign Guarantee
  • Environmental and Social

AUTHOR

Edwin is the senior partner of VDB Loi and a leading foreign legal advisor living in Myanmar since 2012. A frequent advisor to the Government on transactions and privatizations in energy, transportation and telecom, he is widely recognized for his “vast knowledge” (Legal 500) and his ability “to get difficult things through the bureaucracy ” (Chambers, 2016). He advises international financial institutions on their largest Myanmar transactions, oil and gas supermajors, a greenfield multi- billion US$ telecom project and the Japanese Government on the Thilawa SEZ. He assisted two newly licensed foreign banks setup in Myanmar, acted for the sponsor of an 800MUS$ urban infrastructure PPP project and worked on 6 out of 7 power deals inked in 2016.
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