Alexandre Bittencourt Calmon

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Alexandre focuses his practice on regulatory and transactional work involving high-end transactions for clients in the natural resources area. Further to his regulatory, contracts and general business practice, Alexandre has significant M&A experience and over the past 19 years has been advising clients in the areas O&G and natural resources in sophisticated and multimillion dollar transactions.

Career

Alexandre has extensive experience in onshore and offshore oil and gas concession contracts, production sharing agreements, JOAs, farm-in and farm-out operations, JBAs, marketing agreements, as well as midstream O&G related projects, including gas transportation and gas sale agreements. Major deals that Alexandre handled include acquisitions of oil and gas exploration and production assets, including some of the largest deals that have taken place in Brazil: the cross border swap of hydrocarbon assets in Brazil and Argentina, the regulatory framework of the largest ethanol pipeline in the world and innumerous acquisitions of mining projects of various sizes and types (i.e. gold, iron ore, manganese, rare earths, potash and diamonds).

Professional Memberships

Alexandre is also actively committed to legal education and corporate training. For many years Alexandre has been involved with the prestigious Houston-based AIPN. Currently Alexandre is a member of the AIPN model contract committee Farmout Agreement.