L. O. Baptista, Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira, Agel

Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira & Agel was founded in 2007 by partners of the most traditional Brazilian firms, with sound academic and professional experience in natural resources and infrastructure projects in Brazil and abroad.

Following the international standard of the most important law firms, SVMFA was the first Brazilian firm exclusively dedicated to natural resources and infrastructure, focusing on oil, natural gas, energy, mining, water resources, hotel management, construction and operation of ports, platforms, vessels, pipelines, offshore equipment, roads and highways, project finance and financing.

The firm is recognized for its creativity in examining legal issues and for the ethics and quality in providing its services.

For the last ten years, Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira & Agel and its partners have been consistently top-tier ranked by the most prestigious international research institutes such as Chambers and Partners (Global and Latin America), LatinLawyer, LACCA, Who's Who Legal, Euromoney, Legal 500 and Best Lawyers.

The firm is certainly one of the most prestigious and recommended law firms in Latin America concerning natural resources and infrastructure matters and projects. Our lawyers have worked in cross-border transactions involving Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Guinea-Bissau, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, Peru, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Venezuela, UK, and USA, amongst others.

Practice Areas	No. of Attorneys
Corporate	5
Data Privacy	1
Energy and Oil & Gas	3
Environmental and Land Use	1
Finance	1
Finance - Banking	1
Finance - Project Finance	4
Government Contracts	4
Insurance Coverage	1
IP	1
Labor & Employment	1
Litigation - General (consumer)	1
Tax	1