Vieira Coelho Advogados

Vieira Coelho Advogados (VCA) and De Luca, Derenusson, Schuttoff & Advogados (DDSA), both member firms of MSI Global Alliance in Brazil, are delighted to announce that the firms have joined forces through an association agreement.

In 2019, the Ministry of Mines and Energy, along with the Ministry of Economy, the National Petroleum Agency ("ANP"), the Energy Research Company ("EPE") and the Administrative Council of Economic Defense ("CADE"), launched the New Gas Market project. It aims to promote the competition, attract domestic and foreign investments, ensure the gas supply and reduce prices for the final  consumer. This is an improved version of the 2016 project “Gás para Crescer” (“Gas for the Growth”). MSI's Brazilian law member Vieira Coelho Advogados provides an update.

On 27 September 2017 two vital bids processes for the Brazilian Energy matrix were held: A bid for the granting of hydroelectric power plants, as well as the 14th Brazil Round for the prospecting and exploration of oil fields. MSI's Brazil law member Vieira Coelho Advogados provide a brief summary of both two bids.

MSI’s Brazilian law member Vieira Coelho Advogados plans a variety of MSI Month activities.

MSI's Brazilian law member Vieira Coelho Advogados will be attending the 71st International Fiscal Association congress, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) from 27 August - 1 September 2017.

On 7 June 2017, the Plenary Sitting of the Rio de Janeiro Taxpayers’ Council cancelled a tax assessment that had been issued against Raízen Combustíveis SA (a Shell subsidiary) on the grounds that treatment fluids were to be deemed as inputs in the processing of the oil and gas industry, and as such, they should generate ICMS credits that are liable to be offset upon the tax calculation. MSI's Brazilian law member explains further.