Mayer Brown

Mayer Brown's Houston office has a fine record in energy and resources transactions in Latin America, with the team frequently working alongside colleagues in Mexico City, and in Brazil through its associated firm Tauil & Chequer Advogados. Houston partners Pablo Ferrante and Jose Valera are Argentinian and Peruvian respectively, with a reputation for energy-related transactions in Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Dominican Republic. Both partners are particularly known for oil-and-gas deals, but also operate across the energy sector and in other industries, particularly renewable energy and mining. It is a force in Guyana’s burgeoning oil and gas sector, notably advising CGX Resources on its interests in the Guyana-Suriname Basin, including securing funding for its offshore exploration well in Guyana’s Corentyne block by agreeing to farm out a portion of its interest to Frontera Energy Guyana Corporation. The Houston team also played a key role in advising Talos Energy on the sale of a 49.9% interest in it's Mexican subsidiary, Talos Mexico, to Zamajal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grupo Carso. Global head of energy, Alexandre Chequer, is focused on oil-and-gas transactions and projects in Brazil and elsewhere in the region; he splits his time between Houston and Tauil & Chequer Advogados's office in Rio de Janeiro.