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Carbon
PRACTICE AREAS
Stocche Forbes’ Carbon practice area is formed by a multidisciplinary team – composed of members of environmental, corporate, contractual, real estate, tax, financial, labor, compliance and regulatory practices areas – advising national and foreign clients in the most diverse demands involving carbon projects.
The multidisciplinary composition of the practice allows our team to carry out a complex, integrated and comprehensive analysis of issues related to the needs of our clients. We can make highly technical and, at the same time, pragmatic legal recommendations, and always based on a global analysis of all related legal aspects.
We support our clients with the development of carbon strategies, with the identification of opportunities for action in the context of carbon market instruments and other means of climate finance. We also advise our clients on the design of business models and infrastructure related to carbon markets, always guided by the principles of environmental integrity and the best practices in the sector.
Our team has extensive experience in the most varied projects related to carbon, working end-to-end, with services that include:
I. Construction of Strategy and Analysis of Risks and Opportunities Involving Carbon Through Legal Opinions, Memorandums, and Reports;
II. Analysis of Areas and Activities Eligible for Carbon Project Development
III. Conducting Legal Audits on Companies, Properties, Intermediaries, and Carbon Projects in Terms of Corporate, Land, Environmental, and Compliance Aspects, Including Background Checks from These Perspectives
IV. Tax, Land, and Corporate Structuring of These Businesses and Structuring the Project in Terms of Investment, Financing, and Development;
V. Design of Strategies for Optimizing Taxation of the Proposed Structure, Evaluating Potential Tax Risks, and Assessing and Negotiating Special Tax Regimes and Applicable Tax Benefits, Including Identifying Potential Tax Opportunities in Project Development
VI. Contractual Advisory for Developers, Owners, Intermediaries, Brokers, and Financiers, Including Review, Structuring, Drafting, and Negotiation of Contracts Related to the Carbon Market, Such as Partnership Agreements for Project Development, Debt Contracts, Credit Trading Agreements, and Intermediary Contracts;
VII. Legal Advisory for Negotiations with Traditional Communities;
VIII. Legal Advisory on the Tokenization of Carbon Credits; and
IX. Legal Advisory on Contracting Debt Backed by Carbon Credits.
We also advise our clients in the elaboration and structuring of internal policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Such action comprises both policies aimed at aspects that must be observed when developing carbon projects and requirements for the purchase of carbon credits - always with a view to guaranteeing the integrity of business practices from the Environmental, Social and Governance standpoint (ASG).
Among the various works carried out by our team, we highlight the legal-regulatory modeling for the creation of a system for trading greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil of the Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR) project, an initiative of the World Bank and the Ministry of Economy.
PARTNERS/HEADS IN CHARGE
Beatriz de Azevedo Marcico Pereira
Raphael Niemeyer
