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Amyn Mussa is a Partner and the head of Projects & Infrastructure department at ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna (ALN Kenya) and also co-heads the firm’s Real Estate & Construction department. Amyn is generally considered the leading energy and projects lawyer in the country. He specialises in energy, projects, infrastructure, natural and renewable resources, as well as real estate and privatisation.
Under Amyn’s leadership, ALN Kenya has developed a dynamic and market-leading energy and projects practice and is regularly engaged on the most significant power, infrastructure, large scale real estate development (including mixed use, industrial, Park, logistics and manufacturing facilities) and natural resources projects. Amyn has been involved in advising sponsors and developers on unique landmark projects in Eastern Africa including Lake Turkana Wind Power, Kipeto Energy, the Menengai Geothermal Projects, the concessioning of the Port of Dar es Salam, the Kigali Internation Finance Centre, Tatu City, Garden City, Two Rivers, Teams (the undersea fibre optic project connecting UAE to Mombasa) and Triumph Power. He has also acted on complex M & A and joint venture transactions involving infrastructure assets including the sale of the shares by Vestas, IFU and Finnfund of their shares in Lake Turkana Wind Power to Blackrock and the acquisition by Berkley Energy into a Madagascar energy platform created by Tozzi Green owning several brownfield and green field renewable energy assets. This advice includes government engagement and contracts, including in relation to procurement of projects, concession agreements, PPAs, offtake agreements and Government support measures. He was involved in developing and concluding the first renewable energy power purchase agreements and letters of support in East Africa.
He also advises sponsors on drafting and negotiating construction, O&M and debt financing agreements; together with ALN Kenya’s Tax team, structuring project equity financing, including all operative agreements such as share purchase agreements, shareholder agreements and share subscription agreements; structuring unique partial risk and political risk guarantee products for clients (covering a variety of risks, including non-payment, termination compensation, associated infrastructure and fuel risk) with counter parties such as MIGA, IDA, ATI, ADF and various Governments in East Africa. His clients have included Actis, Globeleq, Ormat, Frontier, DP World, Bechtel, Moderna, ARCH AIIM, A.P Moller, Kenya Airways, Berkeley Energy, Rendeavour, Finnfund and other global leading project sponsors in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Amyn has led training seminars on PPPs, project finance, energy and infrastructure projects for international developers, financiers and government officials in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and the US. He has also worked with multilateral institution and government like African Legal Support Facility, Power Africa, US Department of Commerce.
