Danielle Gomes de Almeida Valois

Practice Areas

Energy, Mining, Petrochemical and Infrastructure; Public and Regulatory Law - Projects

Career

Danielle Valois is Trench Rossi Watanabe's partner and heads the firm's Oil & Gas practice group. For the past two decades, she has focused on high-end transactional work, international disputes involving oil and gas development projects and compliance matters involving energy companies. Her transactional experience includes acquisitions and divestitures (both negotiated and auction sales), joint ventures, alliance agreements, finance and structuring and implementation of development projects.

On the dispute side, she has been acting as co- counsel in leading arbitration cases of the Brazilian E&P and shipbuilding industries, including ICC and UNCITRAL procedures. On the compliance side, Danielle has acted in complex internal investigations, elaboration of risk management policies, structuring and implementation of compliance programs for oil & gas companies.

Professional Memberships

Founding member of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee;

Representative for the Latin America Chapter of the Association of International;

Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN);

Member of the Institute Energy Law.