The Energy Regulation and Markets Review - Stikeman Elliott

About the Authors
Guilherme Guerra D’Arriaga Schmidt
L O Baptista Schmidt Valois Miranda Ferreira Agel
Guilherme Guerra D’Arriaga Schmidt has an extensive practice in energy, infrastructure,
arbitration, M&A, tax and corporate transactions. From 1990 to 1993, he worked for
Shell in Brazil as a tax lawyer. He joined Veirano Advogados in 1993 and worked until
2000, first as a lawyer and then as a partner acting in commercial contracts, infrastructure
and regulatory law.
He was a former visiting associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, from
1998 to 1999. For six years he was a partner of Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice
Advogados, responsible for matters involving commercial contracts, infrastructure,
regulatory law and arbitration. He was nominated as a leading lawyer in energy and
natural resources by Chambers and Partners in the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
editions, in corporate/M&A in the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions, and projects
in the 2008, 2009 and 2011 editions. He was listed as one of the ‘leading lawyers’ in the
area of energy and natural resources by the Expert Guides in 2007, 2009 and 2010. He
was also listed in The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers in 2010 and 2011, in
the oil and gas sector. Further to this, he was nominated as a ‘most admired lawyer’ by
Análise Advocacia 2010, in infrastructure.
Mr Schmidt graduated from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
(UERJ) in 1989 and has a postgraduate degree in tax law from the Universidade Candido
Mendes (UCAM), under the coordination of the Brazilian Financial Law Association
(ABDF). He is an arbitrator at the Câmara de Arbitragem Empresarial, in the state of
Minas Gerais in Brazil.
David L Schwartz
Latham & Watkins LLP
David Schwartz is a partner in the finance department of Latham & Watkins’ Washington,
DC office. He serves as global chair of the energy regulatory and markets practice, is a
member of the project finance group, and is co-chair of the firm’s global energy – power
industry group. He has extensive experience representing entities involved in electric
generation, transmission and distribution, electric and gas marketing and trading, and
gas transportation and distribution.
Mr Schwartz has been active in the formation of the developing electricity markets
in the United States; led transactional and regulatory teams in mergers and acquisitions
and divestitures of energy companies and assets; litigated contract, rate and transmission
access disputes; and drafted federal and state energy legislation. He also has extensive
experience in negotiating power purchase and sale agreements, electric transmission
agreements, natural gas transportation agreements, energy management agreements, and
electric and gas interconnection agreements.
Mr Schwartz regularly advises clients on energy matters before the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC), various state public utility commissions, the US
Department of Justice (DoJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
and the Department of Energy (DoE).
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