• About us
  • People
  • Expertise
    • Sectors
        • Technology, media & communications Technology, media & communications
        • Private Wealth Private wealth
        • Real estate, infrastructure & energy
        • Life sciences & healthcare icon Life sciences & healthcare
        • Aerospace & defence
        • Automotive & mobility
        • Business & professional services
        • Chemicals
        • Consumer & retail
        • Financial institutions & insurance
        • Hotels, hospitality & leisure
        • Logistics & transport
        • Manufacturing & industrials
        • Public services & education
    • Legal services
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Banking & finance
        • Brands & advertising
        • Commercial & consumer contracts
        • Competition, EU & trade
        • Copyright & media law
        • Corporate crime & compliance
        • Corporate/M&A & capital markets
        • Data & cyber
        • Deals
        • Disputes & investigations
        • Employment, pensions & mobility
        • Environmental, planning & regulatory
        • Environmental, social & governance (ESG)
        • Intellectual property
        • Information technology
        • Multi-service
        • Patents & innovation
        • Private client
        • Private equity
        • Projects, energy & infrastructure
        • Real estate & construction
        • Regulation
        • Restructuring & insolvency
  • Locations
    • Europe
        • Locations
        • Austria
        • Belgium
        • Czech Republic
        • France
        • Germany
        • Hungary
        • Italy
        • Netherlands
        • Poland
        • Portugal
        • Ireland
        • Slovakia
        • Spain
        • United Kingdom
        • Ukraine
          Groups & regions
        • CEE Turkish Desk
        • French German group
        • Our offices
    • Middle East & Africa
        • Locations
        • Middle East
        • UAE
          Groups
        • Africa group
        • Israel group
        • Our offices
    • Americas
        • Locations
        • Latin America
        • USA
          Groups
        • Brazil group
        • Our offices
    • Asia
        • Locations
        • Asia
        • China
        • South Korea
          Groups
        • India group
        • Japan group
        • Our offices
  • Insights
    • Insights
        • Featured Topics
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Data Centre Expertise
        • The EU Whistleblower Directive
        • German Supply Chain Act
        • Unified Patent Court
          Content hub
        • Global Data Hub
        • Interface: tech, IP and media law
        • Podcasts
        • Synapse
        • Browse all insights
    • In focus
        • AI
        • Dealonomics
        • Disputes
        • Intellectual property
        • MENA
        • Regulation
        • Browse in focus
    • Events
        • In person
        • Online
        • Browse all events
    • News
        • Media centre
        • Work highlights
        • Firm news
        • Browse all news
  • Careers
  • EN
    • English
    • 中文(简体)
    • Français
    • Deutsch
  • Home
  • People
  • Melissa Sophie Rinck
Melissa Sophie Rinck
Melissa Sophie Rinck

Melissa Sophie Rinck

Associate

  • Hamburg Germany
Contact Me Today
+49 40 36803 0
vCard
Email me Call me

Melissa is a member of the Corporate Practice Area and the Energy Industry Group. Her practice includes advising companies and financial institutions on corporate transactions, financing and general corporate law issues, primarily in the field of renewable energy.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Corporate/M&A & capital markets
Environmental, social & governance (ESG)
Projects, energy & infrastructure
Banking & finance
Financial services regulatory

Sectors

Energy & infrastructure
Battery Storage

CV

Since 2023 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2023 Admission as a lawyer
2022 Second state examination, Schleswig-Holstein
2020 - 2022 Legal clerkship, Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court
2020 First state examination, Hamburg
2015 - 2020 Legal studies, University of Hamburg

Career

Since 2023 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2023 Admission as a lawyer
2022 Second state examination, Schleswig-Holstein
2020 - 2022 Legal clerkship, Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court
2020 First state examination, Hamburg
2015 - 2020 Legal studies, University of Hamburg

Additional languages

English

Experience

PARQ energy on bridge financing for photovoltaic project

Comprehensive legal advice to PARQ energy on the structuring of a bridge loan by Kommunalkredit Austria AG, which will be used for the development of a photovoltaic project with a nominal output of 38 MWp. The project will supply around 11,500 households with sustainable energy per year.

Press release
Carsten Bartholl
Jasmin Schlee
Melissa Sophie Rinck
Julian C. Ludwig
Dieter Lang, LL.M.Eur.
Dr. Kris Breudel, LL.M. (Aberdeen)
Dr. Peter Seemann, LL.M. (University of Essex)
Dennis Hoppermann
Hannes Tutt
Galya Stareva, LL.M. (Hamburg)
Dr. Niels L. Lange, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)

Melissa Sophie's news & insights

View Melissa Sophie's insights
wind turbine with blue gray sky
Click here to find out more
Energy & infrastructure

Taylor Wessing advises Encavis on the acquisition of a 41 MW wind farm under construction from Enertrag SE

11 December 2025

by multiple authors

Glass.Mapper.Sc.Fields.Image?.Alt
Projects, energy & infrastructure

Blue Elephant Energy acquires majority stake in project developer Solar215 with Taylor Wessing

16 April 2025

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Glass.Mapper.Sc.Fields.Image?.Alt
Energy & infrastructure

Taylor Wessing advises Encavis AG on the acquisition of two wind farms from Enertrag SE

20 December 2024

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
View Melissa Sophie's insights

Related news & insights

Layers of contemporary financial skyscrapers
Banking & finance

EU Markets Integration & Supervision Package: Key Proposals

17 December 2025
In-depth analysis

by Miroslav Đurić, LL.M.

Click here to find out more
Financial services regulatory

A quantum computing leap for financial services?

17 December 2025
Quick read

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Yellow blue metal staircase
Energy & infrastructure

HR compliance in the energy sector – customs authorities step up the fight against sham-employment

15 December 2025
Briefing

by Johannes Simon, LL.M. (Durham) and Dr. Tim Eickmanns

Click here to find out more
Office facade reflection
Projects, energy & infrastructure

Taxation applicable to Public-Private Partnership contracts in Latin America - Newsletter #1 - December 2025

15 December 2025
In-depth analysis

by Sophie Pignon and Marcos Portela-Barreto

Click here to find out more
energy
Real estate & construction

The Collective Heat Act: the Next Step in Greening the Built Environment

14 December 2025
Briefing

by Claus Bunge

Click here to find out more
Column Close Up
Financial services regulatory

High Court upholds FCA decision to name firm in investigation announcement

11 December 2025
In-depth analysis

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Multicolored credit cards close-up
Financial services regulatory

Financial Services Matters - December 2025

11 December 2025
In-depth analysis

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Low angle view of futuristic skyscrapers
Projects, energy & infrastructure

Taxation applicable to Public-Private Partnership contracts in Latin America - Newsletter #2 - December 2025

11 December 2025
In-depth analysis

by Sophie Pignon and Marcos Portela-Barreto

Click here to find out more
Skyline view of traffic
Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Advising EpilepsyGTx on its US$33 million Series A financing

10 December 2025

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Interior of data centre
Data Centre Expertise

Virtual reality – meeting the data centre challenges

8 December 2025

by Alan Evans and Laura Stechno

Click here to find out more
View all insights

Related people

Germany
Global

Fiammetta Kremer

Associate

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Markus Böhme

Dr. Markus Böhme, LL.M. (Nottingham)

Partner

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile

Felipe Villena

Salary Partner

Frankfurt
+49 69 97130 0
Email me
View profile

Dr. Christian Ertel

Salary Partner

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Manuel Franzmeier

Manuel Schmuck

Associate

Frankfurt
+49 69 97130 0
Email me
View profile

Johannes Schaadt-Wambach, LL.M. (Prag)

Salary Partner

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile
Felix Klindworth

Dr. Felix Klindworth

Associate

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Jens Wiesner

Dr. Jens Wiesner, LL.M. (Chicago)

Partner

Hamburg
San Francisco
+49 40 36803 320
Email me
View profile
Louisa Gertz

Louisa Anouk Gertz, LL.M. (Miami)

Professional Support Lawyer

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
David Mallmann

David Mallmann, LL.M. (Berkeley)

Salary Partner

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Full team
Torsten Braner

Torsten Braner, LL.M.

Partner

Budapest
+36 1 3270407
Email me
View profile
Peter Hellich

Dr. Peter Hellich

Partner

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Richard Bursby

Richard Bursby

Partner

London
+44 20 7300 4874
Email me
View profile

Diana Groß

Senior Associate

Frankfurt
+49 69 97130 0
Email me
View profile
Tillmann Pfeifer

Dr. Tillmann Pfeifer

Partner

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Zbigniew Korba

Zbigniew Korba

Partner

Warsaw
+48 22 584 97 40
Email me
View profile
Thomas Rechberger

Thomas Rechberger, Ph.D.

Partner

Prague
+420 224 81 92 16
Email me
View profile
David Mallmann

David Mallmann, LL.M. (Berkeley)

Salary Partner

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Henning von der Blumensaat

Henning von der Blumensaat, LL.M. (Emory)

Salary Partner

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Lisa-Laura Teunissen

Lisa-Laura Teunissen

Associate

Amsterdam
+31 88 024 3225
Email me
View profile
Full team

Meet me at

There are no upcoming events

See all events
Subscribe to our latest insights
  • About us
  • Campaigns and online tools
  • News
  • People
  • Expertise
  • Locations
  • Insights
  • Events
  • Media centre
  • Contact
  • Careers
  • Alumni
  • Data protection & privacy policy
  • Cookie policy
  • Legal and regulatory information
  • Regulatory information on costs
  • Complaints procedure for clients
  • Terms of use
  • Anti-slavery statement
  • Environmental
  • Scam emails

© Taylor Wessing