Diogo Pais dos Santos
Director, Duff & Phelps
Diogo Pais is a Director of the Duff & Phelps’ Oil & Gas Corporate Finance Advisory team. Throughout his career, he has been responsible of numerous financial advisory projects for all the O&G industry (upstream, midstream and downstream). He is specialized in the upstream sector, where he performed financial services (Valuation, M&A, Due Diligence, etc.) throughout the world, including Brazil, West Africa, Russia, Latin America and the Caribe. Diogo has also extensive experience in projects for governments and major oil companies on market liberalization, corporate strategy and financial advisory.
He has led several financial consulting teams that assisted private and National Oil Companies and has been working in Mexico for the last 5 years, helping them to adapt to the new market framework and the challenges related to the Energy Reform. As part of these projects, Diogo has led the valuation of E&P blocks, the carve out and creation of new business units for the midstream sector and the management of JVs supporting its clients with strategic and financial advisory.
Diogo has more than 12 years of experience in the O&G sector. He started his career in the O&G Portuguese company Galp Energia and then moved to the consultancy industry providing financial services to the O&G majors and NOCs.
Diogo Pais dos Santos will be speaking on the UPSTREAM FINANCING AND CAPITAL RAISING IN MEXICO – LOCAL, INTERNATIONAL & ALTERNATIVE METHODS panel at the 2019 Mexico Energy Assembly
MEET THE SPEAKER
We caught up with Diogo to find out his thoughts on the current state of the Mexican Energy Industry, their strategic priorities and what’s currently making waves in the industry. READ THE FULL INTERVIEW.