Natália Bastos

Practice Areas

Natália Bastos is a highly experienced attorney specializing in contracts, projects, and compliance within the infrastructure and construction segments. With a decade of professional experience, Natália has held roles in prominent law firms and legal departments of major Brazilian and multinational companies, spanning diverse sectors such as infrastructure, construction, logistics, railways, and industrial operations.

Currently, her primary focus revolves around handling complex business contracts, negotiations, contractual management, and the legal modeling of operations and projects. Notably, in recent years, she has played an active role in negotiating the implementation of renewable energy generation projects, collectively amounting to approximately 10 GW of capacity to be installed.

Publications

• Co-author of the article "Infrastructure: How to bring good ESG practices to contracts?" (Valor Econômico and O Globo newspapers, print and digital versions, 07/13/2022).

• Author of the article "Concurrent delays in infrastructure projects: legal framework and practical aspects." (Brazilian Journal of Development ISSN 2525 8761, rated by CAPES as Qualis CAPES 2019 B2, 05/13/2022).

• Author of the article "Discouraging factor: Brazilian punitive damages." (Brazilian Journal of Development ISSN 2525 8761, rated by CAPES as Qualis CAPES 2019 B2, 05/17/2022).

• Co-author of the article "Negotiating infrastructure contracts in times of crisis." (Estadão/Blog do Fausto Macedo, 04/01/2020).

• Co-author of the article “‘Solar Taxation’: what you need to know talking about it”, (Jota, 02/11/2020).

• Author of the article “Charlie Hebdo: The indigest cover of the Women's World Cup” (Jota, 07/10/2019).

• Author of the article “CPMI or Parliamentary Censorship?” (Jota, 06/18/2019).

Education

Industry Sector Expertise

Infrastructure and Construction.

Languages Spoken

Portuguese and English.