MELANIE ROSENGARTEN
Melanie Rosengarten has over 15 years experience in transactions, restructurings,
and privatisations in the energy and other sectors.
Melanie is based in Germany, and leads Brandis' activities there, initiating and implementing both buy and sell side transactions in the renewable energy sector for a range of German and international clients. She is also responsible for providing commercial management services in Germany for international investors in the wind energy field. At the beginning of 2005 she implemented a 44 MW German wind energy transaction for an Australian investment fund.
Up to March 2002 she was Manager, Business Development in the London office of Edison Mission Energy, with specific responsibility for tracking and developing relationships in the German and Austrian markets. She was responsible for the identification and evaluation of investment opportunities, working on international tenders and the execution of transactions, and was involved in the Company's activities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Germany and The Netherlands.
In March 2000, she was a member of the EME team that completed the acquisition of a 50% stake in the 283 MW IVPC4 wind energy company in Italy. At the time, the transaction represented the largest project financing of a wind power portfolio in the world.
Prior to joining EME in 1998, Melanie was Manager, Business Development with the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange where she held a series of management positions and was responsible for 2 product launches.
From 1992 to 1995 Melanie worked for the German Privatisation Agency in Berlin, Germany. She was a team member for the privatisation of Leuna Werke AG (approximately 27,000 employees), which was the largest chemical company in former East Germany, and the subsequent sale of Leuna-Minol refining and gasoline retailing operations to French company Elf Aquitaine and Germany's Thyssen Handelsunion. During her time at the German Privatisation Agency, she was also solely responsible for the sale of 12 chemical and non-chemical companies/production units of Leuna.
In 1994 Melanie was a joint founder of Promochem GmbH Consulting Company in Berlin, which subsequently received a mandate from the German Privatisation Agency to complete all outstanding privatisations in the East German chemical sector.
From 1990 to 1993 she worked for Kienbaum, a leading German Management Consultancy Company in its international division, where she worked on projects for the World Bank in Kampala / Uganda for the restructuring of state enterprises in this African state and then later in East Germany on the restructuring of East Germany's uranium mining company.
She holds a Masters Degree from the University of Munich in Business Studies, Economics, Politics and International Law, and is fluent to native speaker level in English and German.
