Melissa Silié

Practice Areas

She has expertise in both business and dispute resolution matters. Her key practice areas are business and commercial law, securities market, administrative and regulatory, antitrust and consumer protection, with significant experience drafting contracts ranging from small business contract to large corporation contracts.

Career

Melissa is currently Partner of the Finance and Corporate department. She has been involved in landmark transactions in the local legal industry. She is also involved in major dispute resolution and anti-trust cases in the country. Ms. Silie has vast experience in in regulated sectors including participation in private and public offerings, acquisitions of securities market participants such as rating agencies. Has assisted a diverse variety of clients in international local financing and recently assisted an international financial entity in a financing for a local entity whose funds would be dedicated to small businesses. She has worked with acquisitions and mergers in markets for free zones, alcoholic beverages, energy, family businesses, among others and constantly assists in asset reorganization projects.

She also has extensive experience in energy matters, both in mergers and acquisitions processes and of other natures, including her participation in the largest green bond issue in Central America carried out by CMI for the financing of various renewable energy projects in the region including the Dominican Republic. Likewise, in 2021 she assisted a client in the public bidding process coordinated by the Ministry of Energy of the Dominican Republic. She assisted various international financial entities in various amendments made to the contracts signed within the framework of the financing of the Punta Catalina Thermoelectric Power Plant. In 2022, she advised a financing carried out by IDB-Invest to a group of companies with operations throughout the Caribbean and that are currently developing solar panel projects throughout the region, including the country.