Trench Rossi Watanabe

Energy, Mining, Petrochemical, and Infrastructure, Public and Regulatory Law - Projects

Danielle Valois is Trench Rossi Watanabe's partner and heads the firm's Oil & Gas e practice group. For the past two decades, she has focused on high-end transactional work, international disputes involving oil and gas development projects and compliance matters involving energy companies. Her transactional experience includes acquisitions and divestitures (both negotiated and auction sales), joint ventures, financing and structuring and implementation of development projects. She has also been quite active in the policy making and advocacy of the emerging energy transition legislation and regulation.

On the dispute side, she has been acting as co-counsel in leading arbitration cases of the Brazilian E&P and shipbuilding industries, including ICC and UNCITRAL procedures. On the compliance side, Danielle has acted in complex internal investigations, elaboration of risk management policies, structuring and implementation of compliance programs for energy companies.

Danielle Valois joined the Firm in 1999, became a partner in 2011. She leads the Trench, Rossi e Watanabe´s Energy practice in Brazil, having extensive experience in advising domestic and foreign clients on legal, regulatory and commercial matters involving the energy sector, including domestic and multijurisdictional M&As, infrastructure development projects, public and private bidding processes, and administrative, judicial and arbitration litigation. Danielle also works in the elaboration and review of corporate governance and compliance policies for companies in the energy sector, and actively assists clients and sectorial organizations in the advocacy and policy making of the Brazilian energy industry legislation and regulation.

Portuguese, English, Spanish and French.

Newly elected Latin America & Caribbean Regional Chapter Director of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN)

Director of Institutional Relations of the Brazilian Association of Hydrogen (ABH2)

Board Member of the Instituto de Desenvolvimento e Gestão (IDG)

Board Member of Instituto Trench Rossi Watanabe

She graduated from Universidade Cândido Mendes with a degree in Law.

Business Sustainability Management at the University of Cambridge – Institute for Sustainability Leadership.