Gedham Medeiros Gomes

Gedham Gomes is counsel in the Environmental practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in the Rio de Janeiro Office.

With experience in the Environmental practice since 2007, he focuses his practice on preventive consulting, including environmental licensing, contaminated areas and risk assessment, and litigation, including administrative proceedings, civil inquiries, public civil actions and crisis management and litigation, particularly representing clients as plaintiffs to secure immediate injunctions. Gedham advises companies on compliance and legal-environmental risk assessment in a variety of industries, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors, such as oil and gas, ports, power generation, transmission and distribution, waste management, agribusiness, mining and petrochemicals. He has extensive experience in negotiating with government agencies and prosecutors, as well as daily experience in environmental, administrative and judicial litigation, at the federal level and in several states throughout Brazil.