Leal Cotrim Advogados ― Leal Cotrim ― is a law firm dedicated to providing legal advisory services in complex projects and strategic transactions. With particular expertise in the oil & gas, energy and infrastructure sectors, we combine deep industry knowledge with a multidisciplinary practice that supports every phase of our clients’ ventures ― from structuring to dispute resolution.

Our clients, amongst which are renowned national and international companies of those sectors, count on the experience of our team and with the excellence of our services to structure and develop their projects, to obtain sophisticated legal consulting on day to day operations and resolve commercial and corporate disputes inherent to their activities.

The formation of joint ventures, the structuring of financing and the participation in tender procedures, privatizations, concessions and public private partnerships, the negotiation of construction, operation and maintenance agreements as well as supply of goods and services ones, the representation before regulatory bodies and the study of alternative tax structures, in addition to the representation in disputes arising from large projects, including before the Audit Courts, are services regularly provided by our teams from our Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo offices

Leal Cotrim is marked by the multidisciplinary education of its lawyers, which enables them to combine knowledge in public and private law to provide services in a fast, comprehensive and adequate to its clients’ needs.