Eduardo Ferreira > Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados > Sao Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados Offices

Ed. Seculum II - Rua José Gonçalves de Oliveira, nº 116, 5th floor
Itaim Bibi
São Paulo
01453-050
Brazil
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Eduardo Ferreira

Work Department
Environmental, Crisis Management, Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Agribusiness, Mining, Infrastructure and Energy, Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, Esg and Impact Businesses
Position
Partner
Career
Specialist in the environmental area, with a prominent practice in judicial and administrative litigations related to several topics of such subject. Furthermore, Ferreira has a solid experience in the area of consulting, providing strategic environmental assistance and consulting on critical issues in the area.
His practice encompasses administrative and judicial proceedings related to environmental liability and before public bodies, environmental authorities, and the Prosecution Office. He further has an extensive experience in the provision of environmental assistance to clients in merger and acquisition transactions related to companies and estate assets.
Ferreira provides legal assistance to companies of several areas of knowledge, such as agribusiness, automotive, infrastructure, mining, steelmaking, and health. He wrote the book Ônus da prova na ação civil pública ambiental – Um olhar a partir dos direitos fundamentais (Publishing company: Lumen Juris, 2019).
Memberships
- Brazilian Bar Association (OAB)
- International Bar Association (IBA)
Education
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo (PUC/SP) – Master’s Degree in Diffuse and Collective Rights, 2018
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo (PUC/SP – Cogeae) – Specialization Course in Environmental Law and Strategic Management of Sustainability, 2010
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo (PUC/SP) – Bachelor of Laws, 2005
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Environment
Able to ‘master complex environmental issues’, Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados is a force in the structuring of complex M&A transactions and projects, facilitating client needs across the spectrum of biodiversity, climate change, ESG, green finance, and environmental liability concerns, particularly in relation to the mining, steel, energy, chemical, agribusiness, and forestry sectors. Operating out of São Paulo, the team is also frequently engaged in crisis management and negotiations with regulatory bodies. Practice head Roberta Danelon Leonhardt, who also co-leads the firm’s multidisciplinary crisis management and ESG groups, is an exceptional talent in both contentious and non-contentious matters and highly sought out for her experience in potentially polluting projects, liability analysis, and identification and management of environmental risks. Eduardo Ferreira is ‘a born strategist’, whose ‘quick thinking and assertiveness’ shines in administrative and judicial litigation. Associate Thais Ferreira Moreno is a key contact for ESG and climate change matters, while Camila Argentino Silva Ribeiro Scopel excels in public civil actions relating to the food and beverage, pulp and paper, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Labour and employment
- City focus - Brasilia > Litigation
- Projects and infrastructure
- Public law
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Transport: Aviation
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Environment
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Wealth and succession planning
- City focus - Belo Horizonte > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Compliance
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business
- TMT: Telecoms
- Venture capital
- Life sciences
- TMT: Cybersecurity and data privacy
- City focus - Brasilia > Tax