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CPFL Energia, Brazil’s largest private electric utility company, serves residential, industrial and commercial customers around the country through operating wind, biomass-powered thermal, solar, and hydroelectric power plants. The company boasts a strong legal team known throughout the market, particularly for the strength of its M&A practice. In June 2016, the team made a tangible impact with its involvement in the purchase of a power distributor owned by AES Corp in Porto Alegre for $486m, in the first strategic acquisition in Brazil’s electricity sector for two years. Sources point out the team’s ability to work out alongside colleagues from other departments to ensure project completion and to explain complex legal terminology in a clear manner. Besides supporting M&A and green energy projects across Brazil, CPFL swiftly negotiates, analyses and drafts all contracts and provides business-centric advice on intellectual property, real estate, environmental matters, compliance and corporate law.