The Brazilian electricity sector brings together public and private entities engaged in electricity generation, transmission, distribution, trading and consumption, within a complex and continually evolving legal framework. Understanding this regulatory framework is essential to business decision-making.

Gasparini, Barbosa e Freire Advogados has expertise in energy law and is fully equipped to advise on all legal, regulatory and institutional aspects of electricity and natural gas activities. The Firm represents clients in administrative proceedings before government bodies and agencies and concession-granting authorities at all levels of public administration, including the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL), the National Water and Sanitation Agency (ANA), state regulatory agencies, the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) and the Energy Research Office (EPE), among others. Its services also include:

• Electricity generation and transmission projects, participation in public tenders, obtaining concessions or authorisations and formalising the related instruments.
• Electricity trading agreements in the Regulated Contracting Environment (ACR) or the Free Contracting Environment (ACL).
• Agreements for connection to and use of transmission and distribution networks (CCT, CUST, CCD and CUSD).
• Analysis of taxes and charges applicable to transactions in the sector.
• Matters relating to consumers’ migration between the ACR and the ACL.
• Representation in administrative proceedings and litigation, and other activities relating to the sector.