Editor:
Júlio César Bueno
Pinheiro Neto Advogados

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To meet the demands of the world's growing population, large-scale investment is needed across a broad spectrum of basic industries, including oil and gas, minerals and other natural resources, telecommunications, petrochemicals, transportation and power. Neither governments nor the private sector on their own can meet fully the demand for investment on this scale. To be successful, investment projects may need to amass funding and other commitments from a combination of public and private sector participants and involve ever more sophisticated financing arrangements.

As the pace of investment has accelerated, so has the scale of individual projects. Notably, with exploration for resources being driven to increasingly remote locations, the cost of extracting those resources has risen, resulting in ever larger financings. There is, therefore, a growing need for lawyers capable of structuring innovative and complex transactions.

Although there is an increased perception that project financing and construction law are global issues, the local flavour offered by these leading experts in 29 countries show that in order to understand the world, we must first comprehend what happens in our own communities; to further advance our understanding of global law, we must acquire local knowledge.