Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira & Agel Advogados

Representing investors, operators, financial institutions, and free and captive consumers in the electricity sector, Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira & Agel Advogados is engaged in green and brownfield project development and financing, in addition to traditional commercial transactions. Recent mandates include advising transmission and generation companies on public bids for concessions, and interactions with administrative bodies. M&A and transactions expert Guilherme Schmidt, based in Rio de Janeiro, and regulatory and administrative law specialist Alexei Macorin Vivan in São Paulo jointly lead the team. Rogério Miranda, also based in Rio, harnesses decades of experience in transactions, and ‘always manages to interact constructively and diplomatically in negotiations, bringing clarity where there is often fog’.