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Melville Erdenedalai (asialaw)

Mongolia (asialaw)

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Financial and corporate (asialaw)
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Industry Sector: Mining (asialaw)
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Overview

Melville Erdenedalai provides legal services related to banking, finance, corporate and M&A, and international arbitration. Its industry strengths are in the energy, mining and infrastructure sectors. The firm’s founders, Chris Melville and Erdenedalai Odkhuu, frequently lead its key deals and cases. The firm acquired the Mongolian business and assets of Hogan Lovells on December 1, 2017, after the latter’s decision to withdraw from the market. It has now entered into an association agreement with Hogan Lovells. 

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General business law (asialaw)

Work highlights 

Acted as legal adviser to the IFC on matters of Mongolian law in connection with the subscription and purchase by the IFC on its and IFC-BCFP’s behalf of private placement bonds issued by the capital city of Ulaanbaatar. 

Acted as Mongolian counsel to the banks in connection with the issuance of a $300 million international bond by Golomt Bank, one of Mongolia’s five systemic banks. This was the first Mongolian commercial bank bond issuance in the market on a standalone basis in the last 12 years. 

Key clients 

Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 

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