Beretta Godoy’s practice is well-known for its legal advisory services to companies and investors in the energy and natural resources area. We provide advice to important domestic and international clients in the oil & gas sector.

Our integrated and comprehensive services include regulatory matters and analysis of titles, environmental planning, control and evaluation of conflicts and corporate structures for project development. We assist on the negotiation and development of investment finance structures and on the application and management of tax promotions and exemptions. We advise on legal issues related to pre-feasibility, feasibility and environmental impact studies during the different phases of each productive or transport project.

We provide assistance on specific tax and exchange planning for the different stages of project development and on the negotiation and renegotiation of development, exploration, option, assignment, operation, royalties, leasing and corporate contracts. We assist on the preparation and filing of bid offers for exploration, exploitation and transportation projects.

We assist energy companies in all forms of dispute resolution. We also provide advice on national and international bidding processes, negotiation, organization and management of legal matters related to associative contracts for the development of projects (JOAs / JVs) and negotiation and management of exploration, exploitation, marketing and transport contracts; bidding agreements; production sharing agreements; risk service agreements; service contracts; and pooling.

We advise on promotional regimes and on the process for the acquisition, merger or sale of oil and gas companies. We provide legal assistance on contracts and regulatory aspects of acquisitions and/or its main assets, legal aspects of contracts and regulatory activities related to upstream and downstream and on the registration procedures with the appropriate registry created by the Secretariat of Energy.