Danielle Valois

Danielle Valois is Trench Rossi Watanabe's partner and heads the firm's Oil & Gas e practice group. For the past two decades, she has focused on high-end transactional work, international disputes involving oil and gas development projects and compliance matters involving energy companies. Her transactional experience includes acquisitions and divestitures (both negotiated and auction sales), joint ventures, financing and structuring and implementation of development projects. She has also been quite active in the policy making and advocacy of the emerging energy transition legislation and regulation. On the dispute side, she has been acting as co-counsel in leading arbitration cases of the Brazilian E&P and shipbuilding industries, including ICC and UNCITRAL procedures. On the compliance side, Danielle has acted in complex internal investigations, elaboration of risk management policies, structuring and implementation of compliance programs for energy companies. · Trench Rossi Watanabe