FIRM BRIEFINGS BRAZIL
Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown
2012 Firm Overview Most active disciplines
Disputes: Financial and corporate, Public, White-collar crime, Tax Financial and corporate: Banking, Commodities trading and energy derivatives, Equipment/asset finance, Investment funds, M&A, Private equity, Project finance Public: Competition, Construction, Employment, Environmental, Land, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax, Indirect tax, Transfer pricing
Key energy sectors
LNG, Mining and metals, Oil and gas, Power networks and distribution, Renewables, Traditional power
Key infrastructure sectors Airports and aviation, Education, Healthcare, Ports and shipping, Rail, Roads, Water and sewage
Key partners
Alexandre Chequer, Leonardo Costa, Eduardo Lima, Salim Saud Neto, Ivan Tauil
Tauil & Chequer Advogados, or T&C as it is widely known, began op- erating in the Brazilian legal market in 1992 and entered into an asso- ciation agreement with US outfit Mayer Brown to become “Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.” Opinions in the local legal industry about the desirability and success of the part- nership with a global firm are decidedly mixed, but this does not ob- scure the fact that since the opening of the Brazilian oil and gas sector, T&C has been an active legal adviser. Among other distinctions, the firm was responsible for the drafting of the Brazilian Petroleum Law, the Brazilian Concession Agreement model form, and the Brazilian Government Take Decree. Currently, the firm is a project counselor for Sonangol, BP, Chevron,
Total, ENI, and Exxon for the $700 million construction and imple- mentation of the SOOC (Sonangol Offshore Optical Cable) off the coast of Angola. In August 2012, Mayer Brown represented Foster Wheeler during the bid phase and the execution of a $5 billion contract to construct a world-scale gas chemical complex in southeast Brazil.
TozziniFreire Advogados
2012 Firm Overview Most active disciplines
Disputes: Financial and corporate, White-collar crime, Tax Financial and corporate: Banking, Commodities trading and energy derivatives, Investment funds, Equipment/asset finance, M&A, Private equity, Project finance Public: Competition, Construction, Employment, Environmental, Land, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax, Indirect tax, Transfer pricing
Key energy sectors
LNG, Mining and metals, Oil and gas, Power networks and distribution, Renewables, Traditional power
Key infrastructure sectors Airports and aviation, Education, Defence, Healthcare, Ports and shipping, Rail, Roads, Water and sewage
Key partners
Heloisa F Andrade Scaramucci, Pedro Dittrich, Claudia Elena Bonelli, Antonio Felix de Araujo Cintra, Claudia Muniz Levasier Mahler, Pedro G Seraphim
TozziniFreire Advogados, which has been closely involved in Brazil’s first rounds of infrastructure privatizations, offers counsel on a variety of infrastructure-related deals. Its energy practice has been active in Brazil’s energy sector for nearly two decades, and has been closely in- volved in the country’s privatization of electric-power distributors and divestitures of generation-assets, greenfield and brownfield projects, fi- nancings, corporate transactions and regulatory matters. The firm has six offices across Brazil and New York. TozziniFreire’s lawyers advised AES Uruguaiana with regard to a gas
supply agreement valued at $200 million, closing on January 31 2013, and the firm also helped the company supply gas to a 640MW gas- fired thermoelectric power plant that had fallen into disuse since 2008. In March 2012, the firm’s attorneys worked with Sport Club Inter-
national on a $160 million BOT (build-operate-transfer) agreement to rebuild the Beira Rio Stadium. The stadium is of critical value for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and must be renovated in the immediate future. The law firm’s work involved the structuring, drafting, and negotiating of the agreement, as well as the negotiation of several aspects of the en- gineering, procurement and construction agreement that was executed with Construtora Andrade Gutierrez. In February 2012, the firm advised a consortium made up of a pri-
vate equity giant Advent International and Aeropuertos del Surests de Mexico – Asur, an airport operator based in southeast Mexico, with re- gard to an $8 billion public procurement proceeding for concession of the operation and maintenance of the International Airports of Guarul- hos, Viracopos, and Brasília. The firm also worked on due diligence concerning prior operation of the airports. This was the first concession involving airports already in operation in Brazil.
Vaz Barreto Shingaki & Oioli Advogados
2012 Firm Overview Most active disciplines
Disputes: Financial and corporate, Tax, White-collar crime Financial and corporate: Banking, Commodities trading and energy derivatives, Investment funds, M&A, Private equity, Project finance Public: Construction, Land, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax, Indirect tax, Transfer pricing
Key energy sectors
Mining and metals, Oil and gas, Power networks and distribution, Traditional power
Key infrastructure sectors Airports and aviation, Education, Roads
Key partners José Barreto da Silva Netto, Lívia Mariz da Silva, Vanessa Zampolo Faleiros
Vaz Barreto Shingaki & Oioli’s energy and infrastructure practice is partly devoted to assisting clients in regulatory, tax, commercial, and corporate matters. The firm also advises companies from the energy and infrastruc- ture sector involved in acquisitions and corporate restructuring, issuance of debt and in structuring funds to implement specific projects. Vaz Barreto Shingaki & Oioli is currently working on the renovation
of the Palmeiras Arena, one of the largest football stadiums in São Paulo. The firm represented Ipiranga Produtos de Petróleo and Banco Bradesco BBI in a debentures transaction worth R$6 billion ($3 bil- lion). The deal closed on December 7 2012 and Vaz Barreto Shingaki & Oioli acted as deal counsel to the issuer and to the book runner of the second issuance of debentures of Ipiranga Produtos de Petróleo. In the second semester of 2012, the firm represented Alupar Inves-
timento Group on a public company registration and five public debt offerings. The six transactions were worth R$520 billion. Vaz Barreto assisted ViaRondon Concessionária de Rodovia on its first public of- fering with restricted placement efforts of debentures. The R$300 mil- lion transaction closed on June 13 2012.
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