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Olavo Bentes David

+55 21 988320003 odavid@mayerbrown.com

Position

Olavo Bentes David is a Counsel of the Corporate and M&A practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados associated with Mayer and Brown, in the Rio de Janeiro office.

Career

David began his professional career as a Geologist in 1986 at Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), where he worked for more than twenty years as a Geophysicist of Oil Prospecting in the areas of data acquisition, seismic processing and new ventures. Graduated in Law, he became, since 2006, a member of the Federal Attorney General’s Office in Brazil (AGU). He was head of litigation coordination in the Criciúma/SC section and regional Deputy Federal Attorney of Brazilian social security at the 2^nd region of the country. Working at the National Petroleum Agency (ANP), he was the Federal Deputy Attorney until the beginning of 2014, when he became the first General Legal Advisor of the starting up public company Pré-Sal Petróleo S.A (PPSA). At PPSA, where he worked during eight years, he concentrated on the preparation and negotiation of Brazilian production sharing agreements (PSA), the unitization agreements with PPSA as the Federal Union representative and the contracts for the commercialization of oil and natural gas owned by the Brazilian State. In April 2022 he returned to AGU, retiring from public service in September and being incorporated into the team of lawyers of the TCMB in the same month as a senior Counsel.

Languages

Portuguese, English, Spanish

Education

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Law Course, 2005

ANP/UFRN Covenant PRH 36. Specialization in Oil and Gas Law, 2003.

Petrobras Corporate University. Postgraduated in Geophysics of Oil Exploration, 1987.

University of Brasília (UnB). Geosciences course. Graduated in Geology, 1985