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Ms Renata Amaral

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Work Department

ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance, Consumer Law, Environment and Climate Change

Position

Partner

Career

Renata Campetti Amaral joined the firm in 2002 and became a partner in 2013. She is the head of the firm’s Climate Change, Environmental Law and Sustainability group in Brazil, and the leader of Ablfs McKfnzif’s global climate change group in Latin America.  Is also the coordinator of the sustainability initiatives conducted by the office’s B-Green Committee.

Renata assists the major players in the Brazilian market in Nature-bases Solution (NbS) projects, transaction of carbon credits, implementation of decarbonization strategies and carbon-related advocacy and regulatory matters. Renata leads several of the largest environmental and regularization cases in the country. She has extensive experience in sustainability matters, as well as in managing crises and negotiating with stakeholders.

Advises on negotiating with authorities; judicial and administrative litigation; reviewing environmental aspects of institutions and financial operations; drafting environmental provisions in contracts and other commercial operations. Renata has extensive experience in dealing with environmental management, legal auditing and other organizational practices; regulatory and institutional analysis and environmental control; negotiation and implementation of environmental remediation plans; environmental licensing; legal aspects of biodiversity protection; environmental crisis management; development of preventive policies and strategies for companies; negotiation and drafting of contracts for the purchase and sale of carbon credits and acting in transactions related to various aspects of the energy transition.

Languages

Portuguese and English.

Education

She holds an LL.M. from the University of Texas – Austin, and is specialized in ESG and Sustainability at Berkeley University. Renata is a lecturer and professor of post-graduate courses in climate change, environmental law and ESG matters.

Personal

Renata is a lecturer and teacher of postgraduate courses in environmental law, climate change and ESG issues.

She was a professor of International Law and Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law of Pontifícia Universidade Católica and is currently a professor in the postgraduate course in Environmental Law at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).