Christopher J. Goncalves

Christopher J. Goncalves, chair and managing director of BRG’s Energy & Climate practice, has thirty years of international experience in the energy and financial industries. He provides energy industry and damages expert services for international energy arbitration and litigation matters for law firms and industry clients. He also advises industry and financial sector clients in the areas of business and commercial strategy, commercial negotiation, economic and market analysis, valuation, regulatory assessments, project development and financing, asset acquisitions and divestitures, climate change, and international carbon markets and pricing.

Mr. Goncalves is a seasoned industry and damages expert with independent analysis, reporting, and testimony experience for significant international arbitration and litigation matters concerning disputed energy prices, markets, commercial standards, practices, values, and financing requirements for energy projects, assets, contracts, and transactions. He has provided expert analysis and reports for over thirty-five pre-dispute and dispute matters under the auspices of ICSID, UNCITRAL, the ICC, ICDR/AAA, the Milan Chamber of Commerce, the Royal Courts of Justice of England and Wales, and US federal courts. Of these, Mr. Goncalves has provided oral testimony in fifteen international investment and commercial disputes. For the last several years, Who's Who Legal has recognized Mr. Goncalves as a leading energy industry and damages expert.

As a business advisor, Mr. Goncalves has counseled industry and financial sector clients on energy infrastructure and commerce, including LNG, LPGs, natural gas, oil, conventional power generation, and renewable energy. He is accomplished in providing these services to global energy companies, national energy companies, utilities, state energy agencies, independent developers, equity investors, and banks.

Among his expert witness and business advisory experience, Mr. Goncalves has served as the lead LNG and natural gas market and industry expert to energy companies and their legal counsel for over a dozen LNG and natural gas price reviews and/or price review arbitrations in Europe and Asia. He has also provided LNG commercial strategy for short- and long-term sales pricing, target markets, and priority customers for a leading NOCs and US LNG exporters.

Mr. Goncalves' professional experience spans over fifty countries throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Eurasia, the Middle East, and Asia. Within these regions, he offers direct energy market experience in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, Kuwait, Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Angola, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, and other countries.