Carlos Vilhena
Mr Vilhena has over 35 years of experience as a mining lawyer on complex legal and strategic matters across the mineral resources sector in Brazil. Until the end of 2024, he was a partner at Pinheiro Neto Advogados—one of Brazil’s most respected law firms—where he led the Mining and Government Relations practices for nearly 25 years. Carlos has advised major and junior mining companies, governments, industry associations, multilateral institutions, and commercial banks on all aspects of mining law. His expertise spans regulatory frameworks, permitting, M&A, land and community relations, infrastructure, indigenous rights, mineral processing, sales, tax, environmental law, energy, contracts, corporate governance, financing, litigation, legislative advocacy, risk assessment, and public policy.