Pinheiro Neto Advogados

Oil and Gas, Corporate, M&A, and Project Finance.

Partner.

Ricardo Coelho joined Pinheiro Neto Advogados in 1985 and has been a partner since 1996. He has significant experience in corporate law, project finance, asset finance, foreign trade, public-private partnerships, capital markets (equity and debt securities), credit facilities, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, leasing, oil and gas, energy, maritime law, ethanol and biofuels, transportation, aviation and insurance industries. Ricardo has traditionally advised several major Brazilian and foreign companies, as well as international financial institutions throughout the last decades. Recently, Ricardo assisted the lenders KfW and IFC in the BRL 1.76 billion Gás Natural Açu S.A. finance for the development, construction and implementation in Açu Port (Brazil) of a thermal LNG plant with capacity of 1.3 gigawatt (GW), including a regasification terminal for the LNG in the port.

International experience: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (New York, 1995).

Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Brazilian Maritime Law Association. Brazilian Airspace Law Society. Cândido Mendes University Law Alumni Society. Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian Institute of Finance Businessmen (IBEF Rio).

LL.M. in Banking Law and Financial Regulation from the University of London; LL.M. in Financial and Capital Markets Law from the Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa (Insper); Bachelor's Degree in Law from the Cândido Mendes University.