Marvin Menezes

Marvin Menezes began his career in the energy sector in 2005 at the Legal Department of Light in Rio de Janeiro. In 2025, he completed 20 years of professional experience dedicated primarily to the Brazilian electricity sector.

He has a holistic understanding of the energy business and its technical, regulatory, and legal dimensions, with extensive experience in matters related to the Brazilian electricity industry, encompassing generation from various energy sources, transmission, distribution, and electricity trading. In this field, he advises energy companies, free and special consumers, energy traders, and other market participants on a wide range of matters, including interactions with the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL), the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), the Energy Research Office (EPE), and the National Electric System Operator (ONS), among others.

He advises energy companies in tariff adjustment and tariff review proceedings, as well as in administrative and judicial matters involving regulatory issues.

His extensive experience in the energy sector has also enabled him to develop expertise across various infrastructure segments, working with related contracts such as EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction), Built-to-Suit, and BOT (Build, Operate and Transfer), among others. He also advises on post-execution contractual matters, working closely with operational teams in the day-to-day activities of energy companies, including litigation and arbitration, regulatory matters, civil law, environmental issues, and related areas.

Marvin is a member of the Special Electricity Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association – Rio de Janeiro Section, as well as a member of the Brazilian Association of Solar Photovoltaic Energy and the Brazilian Institute for Energy Law Studies. He is also a professor at IBDE and in the LL.M. Program in Infrastructure and Regulatory Law at the Fundação Getulio Vargas.

Member, Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil – Rio de Janeiro Section (OAB/RJ)

Member, Energy and Energy Transition Committee, Brazilian Institute of Lawyers (IAB)

Member of the Board of Directors and Coordinator of the Electric Energy Studies Committee, Brazilian Institute for Energy Law Studies (IBDE)

Member, Energy Development Committee, Brazilian Center for Mediation and Arbitration (CBMA)

Selected Articles Published on MegaWhat:

- The Legal Framework for Distributed Microgeneration and Minigeneration: A New Perspective on Transfer of Ownership and the Prohibition of Access Opinion Trading

- The Judicialization of CFURH: Regulatory Risks and Impacts on the Brazilian Electricity Sector

- Energy Pathways in Brazil: What to Expect from the Electricity Sector in 2025?

- When the Shoe Doesn't Fit: The Limits of Classifying Standalone Energy Storage as an Independent Power Producer

Published on Canal Solar:

- Tariff Policy Challenges for Energy Storage

Published on Broadcast:

- The Energy Trading Crisis and the Urgent Need for a Supplier of Last Resort

Published on JOTA:

- The Role of Energy Storage Systems in the Energy Transition

- Between Patchwork Fixes and Reforms: What Really Changed in the Brazilian Electricity Sector in 2025

- The Man Who Counted and the Enigmas of the Brazilian Electricity Sector in 2026

Published on CanalEnergia:

- Energy Consortiums for Distributed Generation: Challenges in the Application of the Legal Framework

- How Net Metering Popularized Decentralized Solar Generation

- Alleged Electricity Trading in Distributed Microgeneration and Minigeneration Also Comes Under Scrutiny by Brazil’s Federal Court of Accounts (TCU)

- Changes in Arbitration in the Electricity Sector: Overview, Regulatory Trends, and Current Challenges

- Between Industry Pressure and Legal Certainty: The Distributed Generation Curtailment Controversy

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)

2003 - 2007

Universidade Cândido Mendes

Specialization in Environmental Law

2008 - 2009

Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)

Extension Course in Economic Constitutional Order and Regulatory Law

2010 - 2010

Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)

LL.M. Program in Infrastructure and Regulatory Law

2011 - 2012