Maurício Teixeira dos Santos
Maurício represents financial institutions, companies, investment funds, multilateral institutions, and other investors in structured and project financing, infrastructure project development, mergers & acquisitions, financial transactions and regulatory matters and debt restructurings. His ESG & Impact services focus on sustainable finance, energy transition, and governance. His practice spans industries such as energy, water & sanitation, digital […]
Rafael Baleroni
Rafael represents financial institutions, multilateral agencies, state and privately owned companies, sponsors, and investors in transactions and regulatory matters in the oil & gas, offshore, maritime, and energy sectors. His expertise includes structured, project, and asset-backed financings; M&As, asset purchases and divestments, joint ventures, privatizations, debt restructuring, project development, and commercial contracts (construction, offtake and […]
Amanda Arêas
Amanda advises multinational corporations, private and public companies, financial institutions and investment funds on complex financing transactions. Her expertise spans project finance, structured finance, acquisition financing, alternative lending, distressed assets, and public sector financings. Recognized as one of Brazil’s leading lawyers in the infrastructure sector, she plays a strategic role in groundbreaking and high-stakes transactions […]
Ana Carolina Calil
Ana represents clients in the power sector on regulatory and transactional matters, including generation, distribution, transmission, trading, consumption, energy efficiency, and energy transition. She has experience in regulatory advice, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating sector-specific contracts, excelling in project development and corporate transactions, as well as administrative and regulatory judicial proceedings. Education Bachelor of Laws […]
Eduardo Abrantes
Eduardo is involved in a wide range of transactions, including public and private offerings of securities and structured finance transactions across various economic sectors. He represents investment banks, financial institutions, multinationals, private and publicly held companies, and private equity firms. He was an international associate at a prestigious New York law firm from 2013 to […]
GeoPark divests in Brazil and Colombia
Several firms have guided Latin American oil and gas giant GeoPark in the sale of its stakes in two non-core assets located in Brazil and Colombia, in two deals worth some US$20 million. GeoPark relied on Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados for the Brazilian leg of the deal, whilst the buyer – Rio de Janeiro-based counterpart Gas Bridge Storage – enlisted Mattos Filho. Partners: Rafael Baleroni and Leandro Corrêa, and associate Antonio Lira.
Two firms advise on the acquisition of EDF Renewables by APB
Two firms advised on the acquisition by Air Products Brasil (APB) of equity interests held, directly or indirectly, by EDF Renewables, aiming for the joint implementation of a wind farm complex in Paraíba, with an installed capacity of 242 MW. Cescon Barrieu advised APB and relied on partners Eduardo Simoes Lanna, Ana Carolina Katlauskas Calil, Isabela Bagueira Leal Coelho do Val, associates Gabriel Borges Mariano, Yasmin Yazigi de Conto, Hugo Vidal, Lucas Donati and Roberta Silva.
Cescon Barrieu and TozziniFreire advise on Braz & Braz issue
Cescon Barrieu advised Braz & Braz on the first issuance of debentures, subject to private placement, fully subscribed by Vert Companhia Securitizadora, which ws advised by TozziniFreire Advogados. Cescon Barrieu advised Braz & Braz and relied on partner Amanda Sobreira Areas, associates Diogo Câmara and Nicholas Ciglioni.
