Public Law

Abreu Advogados’ public law and environmental law practice area – the first in this market to offer separate specialist legal services in the area of the environment, sustainable development, renewable energy and climate change – expanded this experience over time to include all areas of business and all projects with some public component: not only in instrumental terms by providing administrative litigation, public procurement or environmental impact assessment services, but in substantial terms through its involvement in public infrastructure projects (such as PPPs, concessions for major dams, shipping terminals and ports, motorway concessions, sanitation and water treatment concessions), such as public service or natural resources concessions (such as road haulage or rail transport, sanitation, water and waste treatment services, power supply, and mining).

This practice area also provides services relating to the examination and preparation of development and planning instruments, including advice on processes involving urban licensing, tourism undertakings and expropriation, as well as to public domain licences, such as the water and ocean domains.

The key sectors of this practice area are:

• Environment.
• Eenergy and natural resources.
• Oil and gas.
• Development and planning.
• Marine economics.
• Mining.
• Infrastructure and PPPs