Energy and infrastructure agreements
EPC, supply, installation, construction, O&M, PPAs, subcontracts, guarantees, insurance, claims, notices, force majeure, change orders, performance and risk management during construction and operation.
Energy · Infrastructure · Startups · New ventures
Well-structured contracts that support your company’s financial goals and growth, without surprises.
Since 2008, I have advised on complex business negotiations for multinational companies, banks, investors, developers, contractors and innovative businesses. I now bring this experience together to support new ventures throughout Brazil.
Brazilian Lawyer · OAB/SP 270.979 · São Paulo
Complex contracts, practical advice
Legal strategy to protect investments and enable growth
Each agreement should reflect the financial model, schedule, technical risks and actual operating dynamics. Legal work begins before signature and continues throughout performance, construction and operation.
I work with multidisciplinary and highly technical teams alongside engineering, finance, project finance, insurance, regulatory, development and operations professionals — including projects involving innovative technologies.
Experience that provides confidence
Advising multinational companies, banks and major projects since 2008
My career began in infrastructure business development at the Camargo Corrêa Group and continued at law firms and companies with Brazilian and international operations, covering energy agreements, major construction projects, financing, corporate transactions and regulated industries.
I have worked on energy auctions involving small hydro plants, wind farms and large hydropower projects, including reviews of the Jirau and Belo Monte tender documents, as well as the contractual and corporate structuring of investor, developer and contractor groups.
This experience enables me to help companies across different industries grow through contractual structures that are safer, negotiable, bankable and consistent with their commercial objectives.
Comprehensive legal services
Solutions for contracts, transactions and new ventures
Advisory and preventive legal support focused on commercial strategy, risk allocation and the parties’ actual ability to perform their obligations.
Economic and financial rebalancing
Assessment and negotiation of claims involving foreign exchange variations, logistics, critical components, supervening events, price and time adjustments, schedule extensions and preservation of the contractual economic balance.
M&A, corporate transactions and due diligence
Legal due diligence, SPAs, QPAs, conditions precedent, guarantees, indemnities, price adjustments, closing, joint ventures, consortia, special purpose companies, shareholders’ agreements and corporate reorganizations.
Startups and cross-sector agreements
NDAs, MOUs, commercial agreements, services, supply, partnerships, technology, intellectual property, governance and legal structuring for growing companies and new business models.
Public procurement and government contracts
Review of tender documents, calls for proposals, concessions, PPPs, auctions, consortia, qualification requirements, risk matrices, guarantees, government contracts, challenges and proceedings before regulatory agencies and audit courts.
Real estate and project site agreements
Purchase and sale, leases, rural leases, loans for use, grants of use, assignments, surface rights, rural and urban land, title regularization and agreements for the development of power plants and other projects.
Regulatory and institutional matters
ANEEL, CCEE, ONS, MME, public consultations and hearings, concessions, authorizations, sector regulation, legal memoranda, compliance strategies and technical dialogue with institutions.
Contract management and dispute prevention
Risk matrices, notice procedures, payment milestones, penalties, liability caps, guarantees, event records and decision-making support before disagreements escalate into disputes.
Auctions, investment and development
Integrating investors, developers, contractors and lenders
Energy projects require a coherent chain of agreements. Tender documents, the corporate structure, financing, real estate agreements, construction, supply, energy sales and operations must work together.
Experience across small hydro, hydropower, wind, solar, transmission, biomass, self-generation and distributed generation projects helps identify critical interfaces and prevents risks under one agreement from being automatically or indefinitely passed to another party.
Hands-on, multidisciplinary advice
Technical experience translated into clear contractual decisions
Legal advice is more effective when it understands the operation. My work therefore involves direct engagement with managers, engineers, economists and professionals in procurement, finance, insurance, sales, regulation and project development.
Rather than generic contracts, the goal is to create documents and strategies suited to each client’s technology, budget, schedule, risks and management capabilities.
“A contract should protect the business without preventing it from moving forward.”
Partnership, expertise and results
Working with multidisciplinary and highly technical teams
Collaboration with specialists and international teams to negotiate innovative technology agreements, anticipate scenarios and turn complexity into actionable decisions.
Publications and projects
Applied research in regulation and infrastructure
Institutionalization and Practice of Regulatory Impact Assessment in Brazil
Co-author and researcher for the IBRAC book. The work included reviewing three years of ANEEL public consultations and hearings to examine regulatory impact assessment practices in Brazil.
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Benchmarking Infrastructure Development 2020
Contributor to the World Bank study on regulatory quality in the preparation, procurement and management of PPPs, concessions and traditional public infrastructure investment in Brazil.
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Engagement in forums and professional communities
Featured among Brazil’s Most Admired Lawyers in 2024
Participation in the launch of the Análise Executivos 2024 publication and ongoing engagement in discussion forums, associations, study groups and professional communities.
These forums foster dialogue with companies, specialists and business leaders and contribute to legal solutions aligned with market transformation.
Initial conversation
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Based in São Paulo and available to assist companies and projects throughout Brazil.
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