An energy client wanted to understand potential risks inherent in a proposed joint venture with an overseas oil and gas company with a history of financial problems, including a number of significant penalties levied by the local oil and gas regulatory authority. The report demonstrated how the company’s new management team had improved the company’s operational capabilities significantly though there remained significant questions around the new owner’s political ties and how those had been leveraged in connection certain preferential pricing agreements.
End of Lava Jato discredits political and legal stability in the country
In a recent article published by ESTADÃO, Risk, Investigations & Analytics Cynthia Catlett talks about the decision by Federal Supreme Court judge Dias Toffoli...