Miranda Alliance Brazil – Oil and Gas

MIRANDA ALLIANCE BRAZIL is an association between BBCR and the Portuguese law firm Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados (“Miranda”), founding member of the Law Firms International Alliance denominated Miranda Alliance, of which we are the exclusive representative in Brazil.

Miranda is one of the main Portuguese law bureaus, being considered as the one with the highest renown in the international operation area and having been elected the “Society of the Year in Energy” by the 2009 issue of the directory “Who is who among the Portuguese Law Societies”, published by the luso newspaper Diário Económico.

The deep knowledge and experience gathered by the Firm in this industry, acquired through participation in a very significant number of operations and other projects related to this sector has no comparison in any of the jurisdictions covered by the Alliance, notoriously in Angola and other African Countries. The wide range of such activity, whether at the geographic plan or by the dimension and diversity of the clients, places Miranda Alliance on a privileged position to offer counsel and representation of great quality in this field, from the manufacturing companies to the most varied service providers of the oil industry.

In this way, we can highlight our capacity to serve the clients of this sector in the most varied operations, such as acquisitions and sales, acquisition and sales of participating interest in blocks (Farm- in/Farm-out), achievement of licenses and grants for research and production, upstream projects (including drilling equipment, production rigs and FPSO’s), construction and financing of oilducts, gasducts and other networks, elaboration of legislation and regulations, counsel in grant and production sharing agreements (PSA’s), joint venture agreements (JVA’s), joint operation agreements (JOA’s), prospecting licenses, EPC contracts, facility use contracts, drilling and other development contracts, LNG Sales Agreements, long-term supply agreements (LTSA’s) and others.

For the perfect execution of such services, BBCR counts on the dedicated actions of a Portuguese Lawyer specialized and located at the Rio de Janeiro’s Firm, able to guide our clients in any of the jurisdictions covered by the Alliance.