PRACTICE AREAS
Power
The office offers full service operations in the energy area, working in an integrated manner with all departments, such as: regulatory, infrastructure, corporate, tax, environmental, real estate, compliance , labor, M&A and capital markets to add extensive knowledge on topics of high complexity of the entire production chain and to ensure that all angles of any complex project are adequately covered with a focus on a personalized, high-quality result for each client.
We have a team of lawyers specializing in public, administrative and regulatory law, with recognized experience in consultancy, administrative and judicial assistance focused on the energy sector and all its segments – commercialization, distribution, transmission and generation, including new energy structures. self-production, distributed generation, offshore generation, green hydrogen and carbon market.
We provide advice on all regulatory aspects and administrative processes with sector institutions such as the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL), the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), the National Electric System Operator (ONS) and the Commercialization Chamber of Electric Energy (CCEE) and we represent our clients with specialized work in punitive administrative proceedings, administrative and judicial litigation and arbitration.
Our services also involve specialized auditing of energy assets and legal and regulatory advice for participation in bidding processes, public-private partnerships, energy generation and transmission auctions, other types of delegation of services or works to local and foreign companies, also counting on outstanding performances in merger and acquisition operations in the sector.
We have recognized experience in structuring energy projects and supporting the main commercial contracts necessary for their development, including the formation of joint ventures and the preparation, negotiation and risk analysis of EPC contracts, supply of equipment and purchase and sale of electrical energy (PPA ).
Together with the Infrastructure, Banking and Capital Markets teams, our lawyers also provide advice to the main agents in the sector in complex financial and corporate transactions for the development and implementation of all phases of projects with the structuring of equity and debt alternatives, project financing through a consortium of local banks, transfers and guarantees involving BNDES, capital markets or transactions involving multilateral agencies, export credit agencies and other international financiers.
Our advice also involves the fiscal structuring of operations and real estate and environmental issues that are relevant to each project.
We have a solid track record having participated in the main operations, transactions and privatization processes that have occurred in recent years in the energy sector.