The practice of Energy & Natural Resources The firm offers comprehensive, strategic, and high-standard legal advice, aimed at meeting the complex demands of national and international players who are at the forefront of the country's energy transition and industrial development.

Combining deep regulatory expertise and commercial acumen, we operate across the entire value chain of the electricity and natural resources sectors — from structuring and financing large infrastructure projects to regulatory management and strategic litigation.

Scope of Activities and Service Portfolio

Corporate Law, M&A and Project Finance

• Strategic Operations: Full legal advice in audits (due diligence), structuring and negotiating contracts for acquisitions, mergers and divestitures (BAD) of projects and companies in the sector.
• Financing and Capital Markets: Negotiation and contracting of financing projects, fundraising structures via capital markets, and comprehensive legal support in the physical and corporate implementation of generation projects, transmission lines, and distribution facilities.

Sectoral Contracts and Infrastructure

• Advanced Negotiation: Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating power purchase agreements (ACL and ACR), as well as derivatives and trading instruments.
• Construction and Operation Contracts: Drafting, reviewing and conducting strategic negotiations for Engineering, Procurement and Construction contracts (EPC), Operation and Maintenance (O&M) and other construction contracts in general.
• Network Access: Specialized consulting services for contracts for the use and connection to transmission and distribution systems (CUSD/CUST).

Regulatory Consulting and Sectoral Regulation

• Legal Opinions and Advice: Issuance of highly complex opinions and memoranda on specific legislation and regulations of the electricity and natural resources sectors, including the interpretation and application of the rules and procedures of the Chamber of Electric Energy Commercialization (CCEE) and the Network Procedures of the National System Operator (ONS).
• Specialized Fronts: Our work focuses on auctions for generation, transmission, capacity reservation ("battery auctions"), energy trading in the free and regulated markets, structuring self-production projects, distributed generation, and innovative areas such as green hydrogen.

Relationship with Regulatory Bodies and Public Administration

• Institutional Interface: Legal advice on administrative processes, consultations and requests in general before the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL), the Energy Research Company (EPE), the National System Operator (ONS), the Chamber of Electric Energy Commercialization (CCEE) and state regulatory agencies.
• Administrative Litigation and Regulatory Defense: Representation of clients in tariff, punitive, and prior approval processes. Services include drafting responses to notifications, replies to official letters and orders, administrative appeals, and infraction reports.

Litigation and Arbitration

• Dispute Resolution: Firm and specialized performance in judicial litigation, arbitration proceedings, and complex administrative discussions involving the electricity sector and agents in the production chain.