An assortment of clients from industries as diverse as transport, logistics, energy, mining, financial services, and farming enlist the services of Lefosse Advogados for support on environmentally sensitive aspects of their business activities, including due diligence procedures in M&A, capital markets deals, project finance, and real estate and asset purchases. The team also demonstrates resolute attention to ESG, assisting corporations and non-profit organisations with the implementation of best practices. In São Paulo, practice head Guilherme Mota proves his mettle in nationally significant crisis management matters, with experience in dam failures, large fires, atmospheric emissions, and their consequences. At the associate level, Gabriela Mello shows versatility in strategic environmental planning and effective mitigation of environmental liabilities across sectors like infrastructure, energy, mining, oil and gas, logistics, life sciences, real estate, and agribusiness, while Nina Meloni fields experience in licensing processes, environmental due diligence, judicial and administrative proceedings, and the implementation of reverse logistics systems.
Testimonials
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‘Guilherme Mota is extremely committed to the client and highly qualified.’
‘Client partners, excellent technical knowledge.’
‘Guilherme Mota is dedicated, with specialised knowledge.’
Key clients
- Rhodia Brasil
- Banco Rabobank Brasil International
- Centro Saneamento E Serviços Avançados – Grupo Onet
- Yamaha Musical Do Brasil
- Total Eren
- ACG Acquisition Company Innovx
- Santos Brasil Participações
- Trelleborg Administração
- Puig Brasil Comercializadora De Perfumes
Work highlights
- Assisted Rhodia Brasil with a legal analysis of the use of the term “carbon neutral” for certain manufactured products, and associated risks.
- Assisted Santos Brasil Participações with the acquisition of brownfield and one greenfield port terminals, developing strategies to mitigate environmental risks regarding the concession agreements and providing strategic legal assistance to the environmental licensing of such projects.
- Assisted Puig Brasil with the drafting of a memorandum that analysed applicable Brazilian legislation on relevant matters involving the management, protection, and preservation of the Brazilian biodiversity.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Guilherme d’Almeida Mota