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A consortium of two Chinese state companies (Cnooc e CNPC), two European oil majors (Royal Dutch Shell e Total) and Petrobras made the sole bid for the Libra field, winning the first auction in the pre-salt area of the Santos basin.

On July 21, 2009, the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission ("Comissão de Valores Mobiliários" – CVM) informed to the market that the Certified Emission Reductions, or CERs, also known as carbon credits, are not derivatives or assets to which investment funds are linked ("títulos de investimento coletivo"), and consequently shall not be treated as securities ("valores mobiliários") or regulated as such by CVM at least for the time being, and consequently are not subject to the requirement

O "Brasília em Pauta" é um boletim semanal preparado pela equipe de Contencioso de Brasília, contendo os principais casos a serem julgados pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF)...

A recent Agreement aims to encourage competition in the electric power generation, distribution, transmission and commercialization markets in Brazil.

This weekly bulletin from Mayer Brown's Brasília litigation team highlights upcoming judicial proceedings at Brazil's highest courts and legislative activities in the National Congress. The briefing covers key cases spanning administrative law, civil procedure, constitutional challenges, public service disputes, and infrastructure projects scheduled for review between April 13-17, 2026.

Power Distributed Generation ("DG"), one of the fastest-growing Distributed Energy Resources in the world, has also been ramping up quickly over the past years in Brazil.

O Projeto de Lei em questão é de grande relevância para o setor na medida em que propõe importantes alterações em nove diplomas legais diferentes.

Provisional Measure No. 1,300/2025 ("MP 1,300") was converted into Law No. 15,235, published on October 9, 2025. Several structural topics related to the modernization of the sector initially proposed in MP 1,300 were not...

World Law Group recently hosted a virtual session, Powering the Future with Data Centers, with guest speaker Roberto Miranda de Lima, Founder and CEO of Arch Capital.

As a response to the current situation of Centrais Elétricas do Pará S.A. – CELPA, an electricity distribution concessionaire within Rede Group that filed for court-assisted reorganization last February 28, the Brazilian government passed Provisional Measure No. 577.

Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy's public consultation process on the local content policy in the oil and natural gas sector closed at the end of July and received 18 contributions.

O "Brasília em Pauta" é um boletim semanal preparado pela equipe de Contencioso de Brasília, contendo os principais casos a serem julgados...

Opportunities for growth in Latin America will present in many sectors, with mobile banking, e-commerce, tech, consumer retail, and real estate paving the way.

On July 11, 2025, the Brazilian government published Provisional Measure No. 1,304/2025 (MP), introducing significant changes to the Brazilian energy sector. Below, we highlight the main points proposed in the MP.

Abandonment and decommissioning activities are a normal part of the life cycle of oil and natural gas fields, work usually done when production is no longer economically feasible...

Brazil′s energy policy council, CNPE, recently published Resolution No. 5, establishing the financial and technical parameters for the first bid-round for Brazil′s offshore pre-salt areas.

O "Brasília em Pauta" é um boletim semanal preparado pela equipe de Contencioso de Brasília, contendo os principais casos a serem julgados pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF)...