Energy & Natural Resources: Power

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Provided by Mattos Filho

Legal assistance with audits and contract negotiations for acquisitions and sale of companies and projects (conventional or renewable);

Regulatory legal advice involving specific regulations affecting clients in the power sector, including the ones issued by the Electric Energy Trading Chamber (CCEE) and Grid Procedures from the National System Operator (ONS);

Representation of clients with public authorities and sector agencies related to tax, disciplinary and prior consent proceedings, assistance with response to terms of notification, appeal to administrative rulings and infraction notices, petitions, consultations and responses to government authorities; decisions in general;

Assistance with the implementation of construction projects for generating electricity, power lines and distribution installations;

Preparation and negotiation of agreements related to specific power companies' activities, such as concessions, construction, assembly, Agreement for Use of Transmission/Distribution System (CUST/CUSD), Connection Agreements to Transmission/Distribution Grid (CCT/CCD), Supply of Equipment, Power Purchase Agreements (PPA), Gas Supply (GSA), and energy trade options;

Assistance with negotiating and engagement in project finance and structuring financing from capital markets;

Collaborating with other specialized firm areas for all other legal matters specific to companies and agents in the electricity sector.