Associate

Natalie Melamed

São Paulo (T&C)+55 11 2504 4241

nmelamed@mayerbrown.com

Overview

Natalie Melamed is an associate in the Administrative and Regulatory Law practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown, in the São Paulo office. Natalie provides legal advice to clients structuring infrastructure projects, public contract, concessions and public-private partnership management and administrative proceedings. She has experience in a wide variety of regulated industries and has advised clients in urban mobility, electromobility, ports, roads, rail, water and sewage, and mining projects.

Experience

Advised BNDES in the structuring of concessions of the public metro rail passenger transport service in the metropolitan regions of Belo Horizonte, João Pessoa, Maceió, Natal, Porto Alegre, and Recife. The work comprised the preparation of legal feasibility reports and draft of all legal documents.
Advised an engineering and construction company in the structuring of a public-private partnership of the water and sewage system of the State of Pará. The scope of the works provided include the preparation of legal feasibility reports and draft of all legal documents.
Provision of legal services to IFC in support of the financing of the deployment of electric buses in the public transportation system of the city of São Paulo, in the State of São Paulo. The works comprised the preparation of legal feasibility reports and development of different legal structures for the electrification of the public transportation bus fleet.
Provision of legal services to IFC in support of the financing of the deployment of electric buses in the public transportation system of the city of Salvador, in the State of Bahia. The works comprised the preparation of legal feasibility reports and development of different legal structures for the electrification of the public transportation bus fleet.

Legal advisory to a public transportation concession-holder operating in the Federal District in a variety of regulatory issues and administrative proceedings.
Legal advisory to a public transportation concession-holder operating in the metropolitan region of Goiânia, in the State of Goiás, in a variety of regulatory issues and administrative proceedings.
Legal advisory to a corporate group, operating multiple roads concessions across Brazil, in relation to a wide array of regulatory issues and administrative proceedings, including the implementation of the first federal free-flow tolling system under a sandbox regime.

Education

Faculdade Getúlio Vargas (FGV/SP), LLM Degree in Public Policy Management
Universidade de São Paulo, Bachelor of Laws (JD equivalent)

Admissions

Brazil

Languages

English
Portuguese
Spanish