Gedham Gomes > Tauil & Chequer Advogados > São Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Tauil & Chequer Advogados Offices
AV JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK 1455
5TH, 6TH AND 7TH FLOORS
04543-011 SÃO PAULO, SP
Brazil
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Gedham Gomes
Position
Gedham Gomes is counsel in the Environmental practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in the Rio de Janeiro Office.
Career
With experience in the Environmental practice since 2007, he focuses his practice on preventive consulting, including environmental licensing, contaminated areas and risk assessment, and litigation, including administrative proceedings, civil inquiries, public civil actions and crisis management and litigation, particularly representing clients as plaintiffs to secure immediate injunctions. Gedham advises companies on compliance and legal-environmental risk assessment in a variety of industries, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors, such as oil and gas, ports, power generation, transmission and distribution, waste management, agribusiness, mining and petrochemicals. He has extensive experience in negotiating with government agencies and prosecutors, as well as daily experience in environmental, administrative and judicial litigation, at the federal level and in several states throughout Brazil.
Languages
Portuguese, English
Memberships
Member, Brazilian Institute of Urban Law (IBDU)
Education
Pontifical Catholic University PUC/RJ, Specialization
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro School of Law (FND/UFRJ), Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent)
Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Masters Degree in Law
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Environment
(Leading associates)Tauil & Chequer Advogados
fields ‘a cohesive, integrated team’ that combines a rich understanding of environmental law, climate change, and ESG to advise clients on a diversity of interrelated issues, from licensing, protected areas, liability, water resources, and contaminated areas, to climate litigation, carbon pricing and carbon markets, indigenous populations, human rights, and biodiversity. Climate change-related mandates sit increasingly at the forefront of the practice’s workload, with members frequently retained to assist large corporations with self-imposed greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and net zero strategies, as well as carbon credit project developers with structuring and risk management. The ‘combative, determined, and dedicated’ Luiz Gustavo Bezerra takes the helm in Rio de Janeiro, and is relied upon by infrastructure, energy, mining, real estate, and agribusiness clients for sophisticated environmental litigation, complex licensing matters, and negotiations with governmental authorities and public prosecutors. Counsel Gedham Gomes is a familiar name for the energy, infrastructure, and agribusiness sectors, with expansive knowledge of licensing, contaminated areas, climate change, and carbon markets. In São Paulo, associate Victor Trevizan supports chemical, mining, agribusiness, real estate, infrastructure, and energy companies in litigation and crisis management.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Compliance
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Environment
- Projects and infrastructure
- Public law
- Real estate
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- City focus - Brasilia > Litigation
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Transport: Shipping
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Labour and employment
- Restructuring and insolvency