Trench Rossi Watanabe, Environment | Chambers Brazil Profile

About

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Trench Rossi Watanabe's Environmental and Sustainability team, created by naming partner Kazuo Watanabe over 35 years ago, has been a trusted advisor for companies in their most sensitive matters due to its high qualifications and experience in several aspects, such as complex lawsuits, class actions, negotiations, infraction notices, licensing matters, management of contaminated areas, EPR schemes, crisis management, sustainability, forestry, REDD+ and NBS projects, solid waste, biodiversity, ESG, effluents, air emissions, oil & gas and climate change.

The team’s experience and specialization in the management of critical contaminated areas is a strength highly recognized by clients, peers and the market. Other significant cases in which the firm has been involved are related to the implementation of the carbon market in Brazil, discussions about the voluntary market and structuring of take back schemes.

The Group’s legal expertise is not limited to the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It provides legal assistance to clients in several Brazilian states, such as Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná, Pará and Mato Grosso do Sul.

Combining traditional Environmental Law practices with specialties that focus on the product life cycle, sustainability, biodiversity, climate change, and others, the firm's team acts in an integrated manner to adapt the business opportunities to the legal obligations, helping clients to comply with the applicable rules in an efficient manner.

Chambers Review

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Environment - Brazil

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Trench Rossi Watanabe is a respected full-service firm with solid expertise assisting with regulatory mandates arising from the environment law arena. It is known for servicing an array of domestic and international clients, including players in the mining, oil and gas and agribusiness areas. It is highly experienced advising on oil spill accidents, licensing and the due diligence of major M&A transactions and infrastructure projects.

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Work Highlights

Trench Rossi Watanabe assisted Arauco with a risk assessment memorandum related to the expansion of its Mato Grosso do Sul activities.

Strengths

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The firm is highly specialised, with top professionals who are involved with the developments in environmental law: a point of reference in this practice area in Brazil.

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Trench Rossi Watanabe offers great professionals and immediate responses. The team stands out for its ability to innovate and solve complex problems efficiently.

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Trench Rossi Watanabe's strength in the environment law area is the technical quality of the team as a whole - from the partners to the lawyers under them.

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Trench Rossi Watanabe boasts wide technical knowledge, offering training and lectures to clients, as well as the ability to meet the various types of demands.

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A firm I rely a lot on and that excels in environmental administrative processes as well as infraction notice defences. I really like their work and trust their technical knowledge.

Environment respondent
Brazil

The firm is highly specialised, with top professionals who are involved with the developments in environmental law: a point of reference in this practice area in Brazil.

Environment respondent
Brazil

Trench Rossi Watanabe offers great professionals and immediate responses. The team stands out for its ability to innovate and solve complex problems efficiently.

Environment respondent
Brazil

Trench Rossi Watanabe's strength in the environment law area is the technical quality of the team as a whole - from the partners to the lawyers under them.

Environment respondent
Brazil

Trench Rossi Watanabe boasts wide technical knowledge, offering training and lectures to clients, as well as the ability to meet the various types of demands.

Environment respondent
Brazil

A firm I rely a lot on and that excels in environmental administrative processes as well as infraction notice defences. I really like their work and trust their technical knowledge.

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Notable Practitioners

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Renata Amaral

Band 2

Renata Amaral is well regarded for her broad and active practice assisting clients on a vast array of environment law matters. She has developed a reputation as a carbon market expert, being frequently retained by big players to structure their carbon credit-generating projects.

She has an international view of the discussions, and is always participating in events. Because of that, what Renata brings to our work together is priceless.

A professional with holistic vision, Renata is my right-hand lawyer and the one I trust the most.

Renata is one of the best lawyers to handle matters related to the carbon market.

Renata is a point of reference in the carbon market having a deep level of knowledge of environment law and business acumen. She's an enthusiast and is helping to build this market from the ground up.

Renata is an incredible professional, with a sense of urgency and business vision.

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Giovani Tomasoni

Band 4

Giovani Tomasoni is a practitioner highlighted for his expertise advising on environmental compliance, disputes and ESG-related matters.

Always attentive to our needs, Giovani keeps informing us of important updates on environmental issues and providing us with technically great legal assistance.

Giovani shows deep knowledge of the area, explaining each step of our case in a clear and accessible way. His availability and promptness to answer questions were extremely appreciated.

Giovani is a super business partner we have. He's deeply knowledgeable about the environment laws and the regulatory procedures in the country.

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Manuela Demarche Mello

Up and Coming

Manuela Demarche Mello is an environment practitioner noted for her active performance dealing with both contentious and consultancy work, as well as assisting with ESG and carbon market-related matters.

An extremely helpful and attentive-to-detail professional. Manuela's work makes us feel as if she's our in-house lawyer.

Manuela is skilful in carbon market-related issues. She manages to be really assertive despite the high specificity of this subject.

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Alexandre Salomão Jabra

Associates to watch

Alexandre Salomão Jabra is an environment lawyer who boasts expertise handling complex disputes and non-contentious issues.

Alexandre is a lawyer who takes great care of his clients. He follows our cases closely and never misses a deadline. A very proactive and organised professional.

Due to his wide technical knowledge, Alexandre manages to justify his positions really well.

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