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Tauil & Chequer Advogados Offices

São Paulo
    Tauil & Chequer Advogados
    AV JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK 1455
    5TH, 6TH AND 7TH FLOORS
    04543-011 SÃO PAULO, SP
    Brazil
    Visit website 55 11 2504 4210

    Luiz Gustavo Bezerra

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    +55 21 2127 4231 lgbezerra@mayerbrown.com

    Position

    Luiz Gustavo Bezerra is a partner in the practice of Environmental and Climate Change at Tauil & Chequer Advogados, with relevant experience in litigation, consulting and transactional (M&A) matters.

    Career

    Besides Brazil, he is also qualified to practice law in Europe and a specialist in International and E.U. Environmental Law. He has more than 20 years’ experience advising clients in the infrastructure, energy, chemical, mining, real estate, forest, agribusiness and food industry clients. Luiz has a successful track record in court and administrative environmental proceedings, representing major Brazilian and multinational groups in complex environmental litigation, as well as in negotiations (and other alternative dispute resolution methods) with governmental authorities, public prosecutors and other stakeholders. He has approximately two decades of experience advising clients in complex environmental licensing matters with wide experience in Corporate Law. He counsels major Brazilian and multinational groups in a vast range of environmental related matters, including crisis management, climate change, sustainability, corporate environmental and social responsibility, ESG, indigenous communities, waste laws and circular economy arrangements, water laws, biodiversity, environmental offsets, law and economics and carbon markets. In addition to his role as a Professor of Environmental Law and International Environmental Law at CEPED and at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro School of Law, he also lectured at Fundação Getulio Vargas, EMERJ and IBMEC. Luiz is the Chair of the Brazilian Energy Law Institute (IBDE) Environment Committee and also coordinates IBDE’s Climate Change Law Course. He is also Chair of the Environmental Licensing Committee at the Brazilian American Chamber (AMCHAM) and a member of LACLIMA’s Climate Change Litigation and Carbon Market Groups and LAB’s (a Brazilian Exchange Commission – CVM – Initiative) ESG Group.

    Languages

    Portuguese, English

    Education

    Law School, University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

    Postgraduate studies in Brazilian Environmental Law, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

    Master in Environmental Law (LL.M.), University College London (UCL)

    PhD in Environmental Sciences, PPGMA-UERJ

    Lawyer Rankings

    Brazil > Environment

    (Leading partners)

    Luiz Gustavo Bezerra – Tauil & Chequer Advogados 

    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.

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