Gabriela Bezerra Fischer

Professional Experience

Gabriela Bezerra Fischer joined the Firm in 2013 and became partner in 2024.  She integrates EMI Public Law and Oil & Gas practice group with focus on the Oil & Gas area. Ms. Gabriela Bezerra Fischer has great expertise in Administrative and Regulatory Law, Corporate and Contractual Law being specialized in the Oil & Gas sector.

Assists both oil companies and services providers in a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters involved in the Oil & Gas industry. Gabriela is specialized in typical Oil & Gas industry contracts and transactions, including Joint Operating Agreement, Farm Out Agreement, Crude Oil Sales Agreement, among others.

Gabriela also assists clients participating in Oil & Gas bidding rounds promoted by the National Oil and Gas Agency – ANP, as well as assignment processes before the ANP for the acquisition of participating interest in Oil & Gas assets in Brazil. Gabriela renders consulting services in the various topics related to administrative and regulatory law, focused on the regulation of the oil & gas sector.

Academic Background

She graduated from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro  with a degree in Law and from Fundação Getúlio Vargas with a postgraduation in Public Law and Regulatory.

Languages

Portuguese and English

Representative matters and clients

– Represented an Asian Oil Company in the acquisition of four blocks in Barreirinhas basin, offshore Brazil, representing the client`s first investment in Latin America;

– Represents and assists several clients in Oil & Gas bidding rounds promoted by ANP;

– Represented a drilling contractor in all aspects of the start-up of its operations in Brazil, including corporate and contractual matters, financing and import of the rig, which was the first of its kind working alongside of the Tension Leg Platform offshore Brazil;

– Participated in the team that worked in the independent internal investigation conducted by a major Brazilian company in the context of Car Wash Operation;

– Assisted  one of the world`s largest oilfield services companies in putting together suggestions for the development of the Oil & Gas sector in Brazil to be submitted to the appreciation of the National Council of Energy Policy (CNPE);

– Assisted Brazilian government-owned company in drafting model of oil sales agreement, to be used for the marketing of the Federal Government`s portion of the oil produced in the pre-salt under the production sharing regime;

– Worked as a secondee of the Firm in one of the world`s largest oilfield services companies to assist in reviewing Oil & Gas industry goods and service contracts for Brazil and Latin America;

– Worked as a secondee of the Firm in a major IOC assisting in negotiating and drafting agreements for research and development of new technologies to the Oil & Gas industry.