
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Brazil
Lawyers

Fernando Xavier
- Phone+55 21 3572-3057
- Email[email protected]
- Social
Work Department
Infrastructure and energy / Public and regulatory law / Oil and gas / Energy
Position
Partner
Career
With a long legal practice dedicated to the oil, natural gas and biofuels sector, he leads the E&P and downstream team at Machado Meyer. Has extensive experience in transactions involving the negotiation of E&P assets and with clients from all areas regulated by the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP). Acts in administrative litigation and complex regulatory issues requiring legal and technical expertise (operational safety, local content, fuel specification, unconventional resources). He also has extensive experience in regulatory and contractual issues relating to biofuels, natural hydrogen and CCS/CCUS.
Languages
Portuguese and English.
Memberships
OAB-RJ - Vice-president for onshore areas of the Oil and Derivatives Commission
British Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Brazil (Britcham) - Member of the Energy Committee
Brazilian Institute for Energy Law Studies (IBDE) - Co-coordinator of the Oil and Derivatives Committee
Brazilian Bar Association (OAB)
Education
University of California at Berkeley – Business Law Certificate
AIPN (Association of International Petroleum Negotiators), Houston International Energy Law, Contracts and Negotiations Course
Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) – Bachelor of Laws
Universidade de Coimbra – Exchange in International Relations