Latin America - Brazil • Energy and natural resources
Julião Coelho Advocacia
Julião Coelho Advocacia has well-established credentials in the electricity sector, where it assists clients across the entire value chain in complex regulatory and contentious matters. The firm fields a specialised team made up of practitioners with a strong background at ANEEL, who are well equipped to assist clients from the power generation, transmission, distribution and trading segments before the superior courts. Praised for his ‘strategic vision’, Julião Silveira Coelho has ‘extensive experience in the power sector’, having represented major energy players before the federal courts and ANEEL. Managing partner Camila Alves Angoti de Moraes has recently acted in cases involving new technologies in the solar and energy storage sector. Pedro Henrique Maciel Fonseca steers the team on several high-profile litigation matters. Guilherme Leite Chamum Aguiar and Marcos Serejo de Paula Pessoa are other names to note for administrative and judicial cases.
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‘The firm stands out in the market, given its high specialisation in energy law. Allied to the qualifications of the main partner, the firm's team, made up of qualified professionals - both technically and in the relationship with clients - has proved to be extremely efficient and effective in the Brazilian legal context.’
‘Camila Alves and Julião Coelho - partners of the firm - are highly intelligent and insightful professionals, who propose innovative legal solutions.'
‘One of the biggest specialised firms in the electricity sector in Brazil. The team is extremely qualified and attentive to normative and regulatory innovations, always proposing to the client the adoption of measures that guarantee greater efficiency.'
‘Julião Coelho has extensive experience in the power sector. He is accessible, but the client feels secure in being attended to by other members of the firm, including Guilherme Chamum and Pedro Fonseca, who serve us equally with agility and technical quality.’
‘The firm stands out for the proximity of its lawyers to the client, easy communication and immediate response to requested information. The technical capacity in defining the best strategy is another point that makes the firm stand out from the rest.’
‘Julião Coelho is always approachable and available to discuss processes and strategies. In addition to being very polite and intelligent, his strategic vision in conducting each case differentiates him from other lawyers. Guilherme Chamum and Pedro Fonseca are also recommended.'
Key clients
- Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio (CBA)
- Associação Brasileira dos Comercializadores de Energia (ABRACEEL)
- COPEL Geração e Transmissão
- CPFL Energia
- ELERA Renováveis
- ENEL Brasil
- SCATEC
- CGN Brazil Energy
- ENGIE Brasil Energia
- Âmbar Energia
- Auren Energia
- FURNAS Centrais Elétricas
- AES Tietê Energia
- NEOENERGIA
- ENERGIMP
- Associação Brasileira de Geração de Energia Limpa (ABRAGEL)
- Atlas Renewable Energy
- BTG Pactual
- Contour Global
- Equatorial Energia
Work highlights
- Representing Light in a dispute against ANEEL following its decision to launch an Extraordinary Tariff Revision that would force the client to use proceeds from tax credits granted by the government for reducing prices charged to consumers.
- Defending RGE Sul Distribuidora de Energia in two identical class actions filed by ICDESCA, claiming the refund of all tax credits obtained by RGE in a final and unappealable lawsuit.
- Defending Norte Energia in a class action filed by the Attorney General’s Office that granted an injunction which resulted in a 40% reduction in the level of electricity generation by Belo Monte hydroelectric power plant on the basis that less water should be deviated to the power plant.
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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Julião Silveira Coelho, Camila Alves Angoti de Moraes, Pedro Henrique Maciel Fonseca