About

Formerly in-house in the energy sector and with in-house experience at The Legal 500 recommended Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga, Silvia Maria Ribeiro Lopes is general counsel for Latin America at industrial and medicinal gas group, Linde Gases. With an LLM from Heidelberg and speaking five languages ‘the breadth of her knowledge across all areas relevant to a general counsel is very impressive – corporate, transactional, taxes, even criminal matters’, according to insiders. She has also had extensive experience of antitrust matters following the opening of an investigation into the sector by Brazilian regulatory competition authority, CADE. One former colleague at Mattos Filho regards her as ‘one of the best lawyers in Brazil regarding energy, you won’t find many with her regulatory expertise’, while another admirer notes, she’s ‘a solver of problems and a brilliant negotiator much loved by CEO’s since she speaks their language’.