PRACTICE AREAS
Transportation and Logistics
We have a dedicated team for structuring, developing, and financing projects in the transportation and logistics sector. Our teams also actively engage in mergers and acquisitions within the sector. The lawyers at Stocche Forbes have extensive experience with port, airport, road, and rail (including urban mobility) projects. In the port sector, we have participated in some of the main transactions involving private or leased terminals and have deep knowledge of the regulatory environment specific to the sector. Our experience in road projects began with the awarding of the first concessions, and we have been involved in the structuring and financing of projects since the initial investments in these concessions.
Additionally, we have vast experience in supporting the contractual management of concessions and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the sector, including drafting and monitoring economic-financial rebalancing claims and defense in regulatory sanctioning processes. In the airport sector, we have similar experience in project financing, contractual management, and supporting the re-bidding of airport concessions. We also possess specific knowledge related to the rail sector, particularly in operations for financing investments in rolling stock. Our lawyers have also paid special attention to urban mobility projects associated with the Olympics and the World Cup.
We are distinguished in innovative project financing operations, whether through local bank consortia, transfers and guarantees involving BNDES or the Merchant Marine Fund, capital market transactions, or deals involving multilateral agencies, export credit agencies, and other international financiers.
We also have a strong track record in project development, forming joint ventures, and drafting and negotiating underlying contracts such as EPCs, offtake agreements, supply contracts, and other necessary contractual instruments for large projects in the transportation and logistics sector.
Our advisory services also include the tax structuring of operations and addressing real estate and environmental issues relevant to each project.
Moreover, we have specialists in administrative law and regulatory law, providing all necessary assistance for participation in bidding processes, public-private partnerships, and other modalities of delegating services or works to local and foreign private sector companies.