Campos Mello bolsters team with new partners
Campos Mello Advogados bolsters team with new partners in Oil and Gas, Maritime, Environmental, Litigation and Arbitration
DLA Piper announced that five new partners have joined Campos Mello Advogados (CMA), in cooperation with DLA Piper. The expansion strengthens its capabilities in oil and gas, maritime, litigation and arbitration, with a particular focus on environmental and sustainability initiatives. This significant lateral group expansion represents the latest step in CMA’s alignment with DLA Piper and its relationship firms throughout the region and in Canada.
To strengthen its energy offering in response to the increasing legal needs of the changing energy industry, Campos Mello Advogados have added partners Alexandre Calmon (pictured top left) and Marcelo Frazao (pictured top right) in Oil and Gas, Energy transition and Maritime. Alexandre Calmon is one of the leading oil and gas lawyers in Brazil and brings vast experience in acquisitions of oil and gas exploration and production assets and the development of energy projects in Brazil. Marcelo Frazão advises domestic and international companies on matters related to shipping, oil and gas, and energy projects. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, finance, and oil and gas and energy projects involving ships, maritime terminals and offshore works
CMA has also added partners Paulo de Bessa Antunes (pictured bottom left) and Vilmar Gonçalves (pictured bottom centre) to its environmental and ESG practice. Bessa Antunes served for 30 years as Regional Federal Prosecutor at the Brazilian Federal Prosecution Office and as Head of Legal of the Secretariat of Environmental Protection of Rio de Janeiro State. He has extensive experience in environmental law and has frequently dealt with environmental, indigenous and diffuse rights issues. Vilmar Gonçalves joins the firmwide, global International Arbitration group and will be an active participant in DLA Piper’s Latin America regional practice group. He focuses his practice on representing clients in various industries in legal and administrative proceedings, providing legal-environmental consultancy, environmental crisis management and alternative dispute resolution methods, including for multi-party cases.
CMA has also added João Marçal Martins (pictured bottom right) to its civil litigation and arbitration practice. He joins the panel of arbitrators of the Brazilian Center of Mediation and Arbitration (CBMA) and of the Sao Paulo State Arbitration Council (CAESP). He is also Vice Chair for Special Projects of the American Bar Association (ABA), Section of International Law, a member and Brazilian Ambassador of YCIArb.
