Energy & Natural Resources: Power

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Provided by Trench Rossi Watanabe

Trench Rossi Watanabe has been assisting traditional players and newcomers (consumers mainly) in the Brazilian power industry for decades. The firm guides companies in domestic and cross-border transactions and has worked around the clock to help clients navigate the Brazilian power industry and make investments viable within a short timeframe.

The firm's Energy Practice Group assists clients in an array of transactions, including privatizations and public tenders, energy auctions, private and public M&A, and project development. It assists on transmission, generation, distributed generation, and conventional distribution projects and deals. Its pioneer expertise proved valuable when companies outside this market started to acquire renewable energy and develop projects of their own. The firm developed contractual structures that eventually became market standards, such as the first corporate PPAs executed in Brazil.

Its renewables and clean technology lawyers work with Project Finance, Tax and Infrastructure groups to meet each client's needs and expectations. It provides clients with a holistic industry awareness, and a forward-looking approach on trends such as ESG, carbon credits, sustainability, hydrogen as an energy source, and corporate PPAs.

Thanks to clients' recognition, the firm´s Energy Practice has been at the forefront of market-leading transactions and projects in Brazil.