Pedro Couto

With 29 years of experience, as General Counsel of private companies, State organisations and corporations throughout Mozambique, is involved in initiatives such as BOT, BOOT, restructuring of companies, foreign investment, financing, privatization and public procurement (transport, mining, aviation, energy, oil, gas, Port, rail and business infrastructure). He is an expert in Project Finance and Finance Structure having participated in most Power and Infrastructure projects in recent years in Mozambique.

• Legal assistance to the construction of the largest hydropower Project of Mphanda Nkuwa, includes the development of a run-of-river dam located 61 km downstream of Cahora Bassa on the Zambezi River in Tete Province.
• Legal Assistance in development of two Pv power projects until the financial close.
• Legal advice to the sponsors in respect of a non-recourse project finance for the solar project 30 MW PV Power Project.
• Legal advice to the lenders on the development of 100 MW wind project, is first of its kind in Namaacha
• Legal assistance for the development of LNG terminals in Mozambique, in a partnership between LNG company and State-owned company
• Legal assistance for development and implementation of a 30 Mw PV Power Project in Zitundo, Maputo Province, Mozambique
• Legal consultancy services to Mozambican public utility under the “fast-track project” (consisting of a medium-sized solar photovoltaic power plant (20 to 40 MW) to be developed under an IPP scheme) in relation to the Promotion for Auctions of Renewable Energy Projects (PROLER) project
• Legal assistance for Gas-fired power station for the generation and sale, including export, of up to 250 MW of electricity in Nacala.
• Legal assistance for the development and implementation of a 1200 MW Coal fired power Project and Transmission Lines in Tete Province, Mozambique;

• Project development
• Project finance
• Banking
• PPP/PFI

• Energy
• Oil and gas
• Mining
• Transport
• Social infrastructure

• Member of the Mozambican Bar Association, number 121

• Member of Aerial - Aviation Education Resource & Information for Lawyers
• Member of the International Bar Association

• Degree in Law, from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, in 1995
• Post-graduation on Corporate Law, from Faculdade de Direito, na Universidade de Lisboa, in 1996
• Post-graduation on Administrative Law, from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane and Supreme Administrative Court, in 1998
• Post-graduation on Project Finance Structures, from Universidade de Cape Town, in 2000