Ms Mihyun Melissa Park > DR & AJU LLC > Seoul, South Korea > Lawyer Profile

Ms Mihyun Melissa Park

82-2-3016-8731 mmpark@draju.com

Work Department

Ms. Mihyun Melissa Park is a foreign attorney and the head of Energy & Infrastructure Group at DR & AJU LLC. Mihyun advises major clients on the development, financing and acquisition of large-scale greenfield and operational IPP projects (including renewables and offshore wind), hydrogen, LNG projects, hybrid renewable Battery energy storage system (BESS) project and infrastructure/PPP (rail, road, ports and airports) projects both in developed and emerging markets. She has drafted, reviewed and negotiated various forms of finance and project documents in relation to highly complicated project financing and leverage and acquisition financing. She has also advised on innovative and multi-sourced financing structures including export credit agencies (untied /tied/ covered/ direct) financing, senior, mezzanine and sponsor debts, green bonds and project bonds. She has recently focused on representing clients developing, acquiring and financing renewable projects in developed countries. In particular, she has been involved in innovative project financing where the lenders were being asked to consider taking merchant risk, offtaker’s credit rating risk or short-term tenor offtake risk. She has also advised clients onan early-stage greenfield small module reactor nuclear project, merchant BESS project and offshore wind projects, addressing various facets such as risk identification and the formulation of mitigation strategies for development, new technology, construction, delay, and commissioning risks.

Position

Head of Energy & Infrastructure Group/Foreign Attorney

Career

• Head of Energy & Infrastructure Group/Foreign Attorney, DR&AJU LLC (2018-Present)
• Senior Associate, Norton Rose Fulbright (2015)
• Foreign Attorney, Shin & Kim LLC (2011)
• Foreign Attorney, First Law Firm (2009)

Languages

• Korean
• English

Memberships

• Admitted to Bar, New York
• Admitted to Bar, Australia (2009)

Education

• Faculty of Law, Monash University (LLB, 2008)
• University of New South Wales (BA in Politics and International Relations, 2004)