Housed within the infrastructure, regulatory and public law practice, the energy team at Madrona Fialho Advogados brings together multidisciplinary expertise in regulation, litigation, contracts, and transactions. Project structuring is a key strength, and PPAs and build-to-suit arrangements form a bulk of the transactional workload, while self-production continues to be a growing area of interest. São Paulo’s Rodrigo Machado leads the charge, exercising ‘technical quality’ in generation and transmission project structuring, including comprehensive assistance in auctions and concessions processes. Senior associate Felipe Zaratini is poised to assist with matters relating to distributed generation and self-production.
Testimonials
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‘The firm provides an excellent service, both in technical terms and in terms of quality and timing.’
‘Highlight goes to Rodrigo Machado for his technical quality and high availability to serve his clients.’
‘The firm pays full attention to the company's demands, trying to understand all the commercial details that we want to address and implementing them in the best possible way in the contracts. They are proactive and question us about controversial points, to make sure that the operation contracts are correctly addressing what we want to cover.’
‘Always available, very knowledgeable, business-oriented and agile in responses.’
‘Rodrigo Machado is always available, very knowledgeable, business-oriented and agile in responses.’
‘Dedication and attention.’
‘Excellent firm working in cogeneration consultancy. The level of complexity of the work carried out is classified as excellent, considering the topics that are handled by the firm, which require a high level of knowledge and experience to execute the demands directed at the office.’
Key clients
- Raízen
- GLP Brasil Gestão De Recursos e Administração Imobiliária
- Soltec Group
- Auren Energia
- Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista – CTEEP
- Balcão Brasileiro de Comercialização de Energia – BBCE
- EDP Energias do Brasil
- Usina Açucareira S. Manoel – UASM
- CTG Brasil
Work highlights
- Advised Raízen on the structuring and development of distributed generation projects, resulting in an expansion by 1GW.
- Advised BBCE on the structuring of new power portfolio management products to be offered to the market and its members.
- Advised CTG Brasil Trading Energia on the judicial recovery of Grupo Brasil Comercializadora de Energias, in which several companies of the CTG Group were listed as creditors, totalling a final amount of R$151m.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Rodrigo Machado