Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP has a considerable track record of energy, oil and gas, and mining transactions in Latin America. London partner Laura Hulett has advised on a multitude of cross-border hydrocarbons and renewables investments into Brazil, including Mercuria Energy Group’s debt and minority equity investments in international oil investment business Seacrest Petróleo to facilitate the company's acquisitions of the Cricare and Norte Capixaba onshore oil assets in Brazil. Hulett previously advised on a series of deals connected to Petrobras’s divestment programme. In New York, Edward Dougherty is best known for project finance, although he to has worked on a number of oil-and-gas M&A transactions in the region.