Rafael Vanzella
Brazil Guide 2024
Band 6 : Public Law
Band 6
About
Provided by Rafael Vanzella
Practice Areas
Partner in Infrastructure & energy and Public and regulatory law.
Career
Vanzella is specialist in regulated contracts, structured acquisitions and financings, complex guarantees, and public administration business conducted in the sectors of transports and logistics, energy, urban mobility and cities, basic sanitation, and solid waste. He provides legal assistance to investors, main contractors, suppliers of capital goods, financial institutions, and governmental agencies on a range of steps of an infrastructure project, such as private-public partnerships modeling and concessions, negotiation of joint venture agreements, participation in tenders, establishment of special purpose companies and of their shareholders’ agreements, structuring construction contracts, supply and off-takes, paying in of capital structure, and disvestiture transactions. He also engages activities in expression of interest procedures, pre-litigation procedures of administrative contracts, regulatory analysis and diagnosis, and drawing up studies on sectors and public policies.
Professional Memberships
Admitted to the Brazilian Bar Association. Member of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Alumni.
Chambers Review
Brazil: Industries & Sectors
Rafael Vanzella is well regarded for devising complex pre-litigation strategies for high-value regulatory disputes and issuing legal opinions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Rafael Vanzella is a skilled lawyer with unquestionable technical knowledge and a wide vision of the infrastructure market, which allows him to provide sophisticated solutions to complex legal issues."
"He has an excellent understanding of our business and how it is affected, always seeking to support us with the macro view and often beyond what is asked of him."
"Rafael Vanzella is a skilled lawyer with unquestionable technical knowledge and a wide vision of the infrastructure market, which allows him to provide sophisticated solutions to complex legal issues."
"He has an excellent understanding of our business and how it is affected, always seeking to support us with the macro view and often beyond what is asked of him."