Tauil & Chequer Advogados fields ‘a cohesive, integrated team’ that combines a rich understanding of environmental law, climate change, and ESG to advise clients on a diversity of interrelated issues, from licensing, protected areas, liability, water resources, and contaminated areas, to climate litigation, carbon pricing and carbon markets, indigenous populations, human rights, and biodiversity. Climate change-related mandates sit increasingly at the forefront of the practice’s workload, with members frequently retained to assist large corporations with self-imposed greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and net zero strategies, as well as carbon credit project developers with structuring and risk management. The ’combative, determined, and dedicated’ Luiz Gustavo Bezerra takes the helm in Rio de Janeiro, and is relied upon by infrastructure, energy, mining, real estate, and agribusiness clients for sophisticated environmental litigation, complex licensing matters, and negotiations with governmental authorities and public prosecutors. Counsel Gedham Gomes is a familiar name for the energy, infrastructure, and agribusiness sectors, with expansive knowledge of licensing, contaminated areas, climate change, and carbon markets. In São Paulo, associate Victor Trevizan supports chemical, mining, agribusiness, real estate, infrastructure, and energy companies in litigation and crisis management.
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‘The firm is technically excellent. Furthermore, they go beyond the proposed scope, presenting a broad view of risks for decision making. They present a collaborative profile, a sense of urgency, and consider the client’s reality when proposing legal fees.’
‘Luiz Gustavo Bezerra has vast technical knowledge and an adequate profile to deal with essential risk analyses for the business.’
‘We trust in Luiz Gustavo Bezerra’s work and that of his team, which has qualified over time, delivering excellent work. It is a cohesive, integrated team that partners with the company. They care about in-depth knowledge of the business, enhancing deliveries.’
‘Gedham Gomes and Victor Trevizan act strategically and assertively in the matters they handle.’
‘They operate not only in the administrative sphere but also in the environmental procedural sphere. They are extremely combative and dedicated.’
‘Luiz Gustavo Bezerra is a highly qualified professional. Combative, determined, and dedicated. Long-time partner who makes a point of knowing the business in depth to offer the best legal solutions. He is strategic and has a vision of the whole.’
‘Gedham Gomes has continually specialised in issues relating to renewable energy, climate change and biodiversity.’
‘Victor Trevizan works mainly in the judicial sphere. Highly qualified, he combines his knowledge in the procedural area with the environmental area in an exemplary way and with great results.’
Key clients
- Bunge
- Hydro
- EDF
- 3R Petroleum
- BNDES
- Forbes & Manhattan
- Eletrobras (Eletronorte, Eletrosul, Furnas, Santo Antônio Energia)
- Eneva
- Carbonext
- Biofílica
Work highlights
- Advised Eneva on the environmental licensing of the UTE Azulão thermoelectric power plant, its potential impacts to indigenous communities, and how it may affect licensing requirements.
- Advised Eletrobras and its subsidiaries on sensitive climate and human rights litigation.
- Advised BTG on the acquisition of a stake in Systemica, a Brazilian carbon offset project developer.
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Leading associates
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Gedham Gomes
Practice head
Luiz Gustavo Bezerra
Other key lawyers
Gedham Gomes; Victor Trevizan