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Giovani Loss
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Work Department
Rio de Janeiro
Position
Partner - Ethanol and Biofuels, Infrastructure, Maritime and Oil and Gas
Career
Giovani’s practice focuses on energy, oil and gas and in particular on merger and acquisition transactions, financing and regulatory issues involving these industries. He was a legal counsel in the Houston office of Fulbright and Jaworski LLP (now Norton Rose Fulbright). He is one of the founding partners and a board member of the Brazilian Institute of Energy Law Studies (IBDE) and a chairman of the Oil & Gas Law Committee of the International Bar Association. He is licensed to practice law in Brazil, New York and England.
Languages
Spanish English Portuguese
Member
Board member of the Brazilian Institute of Energy Law Studies (IBDE)
Education
Bachelor of Laws, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Master of Laws in Public Law, Universidade de São Paulo; Master of Laws (LL.M.), Stanford Law School
Brazil
Transport and shipping
Within: Transport and shipping
Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados’ Giovani Loss and Pablo Sorj are recommended for financings in the shipping sector. The group also acts in regulatory matters and disputes, and recently assisted in the negotiation of Svitzer’s shipbuilding contracts. On the aviation side, it acted for United Airlines, VRG Linhas Aéreas and Gol.
Brazil: Energy and natural resources
Hydrocarbons
Within: Leading lawyers
Giovani Loss - Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados
Within: Hydrocarbons
Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados’ ‘business-oriented and fast’ group handles a variety of oil and gas work including financings, asset purchases, project developments, and contractual and regulatory matters. It assisted CELSE – Centrais Eletricas de Sergipe in negotiating a construction, operation and maintenance contract as well as an LNG supply agreement with General Electric for the construction of a 1.5GW combined-cycle power plant. On the transactional side, the team advised Ultrapar on its R$2.8bn acquisition of LPG unit Liquigás Distribuidora from Petrobras. Giovani Loss is ‘well connected’, and senior associate Felipe Rodrigues Caldas Feres is ‘outstanding’. Since publication, the firm has hired associate Danielle Ludwig from top tier rival firm Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira & Agel.