Pedro Seraphim is a director of APINE, the Brazilian Independent Power Producers Association, since 2004.  In such capacity, Pedro has been putting his experience as a lawyer at the service of APINE to promote better legal and regulatory framework in the Brazilian power marketplace.

Since 1998, Pedro is a partner of the Brazilian firm of TozziniFreire Advogados, the biggest law firm in Latin America, and is the head of its Energy Practice Group.  Pedro leads the firm’s services in connection with power and infrastructure projects, also conducting mergers and acquisitions transactions in such sectors.  Pedro has been focused on transactions involving renewable energy, and co-heads a new area in the firm exclusively dedicated to bioenergy (which includes bio-fuels such as ethanol and cogeneration projects).  In such new area alone, Pedro has been directly involved in more than 50 transactions in the Brazilian ethanol sector.

He was a foreign associate at the New York office of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP between 1996 and 1998.  He graduated from the Law School of Universidade de São Paulo (USP) in 1991, and also studied at the Academy of American and International Law, organized by the Center for American and International Law, in Dallas, Texas, in 1995.

APINE

The Brazilian Independent Power Producers Association – APINE was formed in September 1995, and represents the experience of more than 200,000 MW of independent power production all over the world.

The purpose of APINE is to represent companies with interests in the independent power production business before the public authorities of the power sector in Brazil.  The Brazilian Government has set the policy of counting with the opinions of private investors in formatting and developing the power sector in Brazil, and APINE is the single most prestigious and active association in doing so.

APINE advocates the rights and interests of Brazilian and foreign private investors involved in the power generation business, acting as a consulting and technical hub for the Brazilian policy makers.

Some of the key associates of APINE are AES, Duke Energy, Tractebel, CPFL, EDP, Iberdrola and Endesa.

Please check www.apine.com.br for more information.