Graça Couto, Sequerra, Levitinas, Bicudo, Leal & Abby Advogados

The highly specialised team at Graça Couto, Sequerra, Levitinas, Bicudo, Leal & Abby Advogados provides comprehensive environmental advice to a diverse client roster, comprised of heavyweights from the energy, mining, oil and gas, and pulp and paper industries, among others. Contentious matters – including administrative and civil litigation – are key to the firm’s service offering. Practitioners are also singled out for their crisis management credentials, having played a key advisory role in the context of two of Brazil’s largest environmental accidents, the collapse of the Brumadinho and Mariana dams. Climate change and ESG matters are growing areas of activity for the group, which has been increasingly engaged on the buying and selling of credits in the carbon market and on mandates involving the transition risks arising from new climate regulations in Brazil and abroad. Oscar Graça Couto is a preeminent figure for ESG issues and environmental litigation at the administrative and judicial levels. The latter area is a core specialism for Alexandre Abby, who has considerable experience in the negotiation of agreements between private and public stakeholders in the aftermath of major environmental incidents. Guilherme Leal, who oversees the climate change practice, has over two decades of experience in environmental law matters. Mariana Miranda, a contact for energy clients, and Nina Didonet are key associates in the group.