Associate
Luisa Tortolano Barreto
Energy, Infrastructure, Corporate and M&A
Overview
Luisa Tortolano Barreto is a senior associate in the Power, Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions Practices practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office.
Luisa is focused on infrastructure projects with an emphasis on the power sector. Her practice includes drafting and negotiating contracts related to project implementation (such as EPC/EPCM, owner's engineering, operation and maintenance, equipment supply), power purchase agreements and advice on regulatory issues, as well as coordination of projects within the power sector, especially mergers and acquisitions, including the coordination of due diligences.
Experience
- Advice to Cemig GT on the sale of its shareholding in Aliança Energia to Vale S.A.
- Advice to Brookfield on the investment for the development and construction of several distributed minigeneration projects, totalizing 160MW.
- Advice to Brookfield on the acquisition of 3 wind projects located in Rio Grande do Sul.
- Advice to Yinson Renewables on the acquisition of two wind projects in the State of Ceará.
- Advice to Exus in the negotiation for the acquisition of a solar project of up to 1GW in Brazil.
- Advice to to Cemig GT in negotiating pre-contracts for participation in auctions transmission.
Education
- Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo, Master in Commercial Law (LL.M)
- Université Lumière Lyon 2, Licence en Droit, 2018
- Pontíficia Universidade Católica (PUC/SP), Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent)
Admissions
- Brazil
Languages
- English
- French
- Portuguese