Public Law
Brazil Guide 2024 : Brazil
Band 1
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Provided by Machado Meyer
With a long involvement in supporting the structuring and modeling of projects with the public sector, we assist clients in public tenders, concessions, and public-private partnerships, providing advice on all aspects of administrative and regulatory law.
Our biggest difference is our capacity to assist our clients from the design and modeling of the project, its bidding process, and throughout the implementation, management, including the financing, negotiation and drafting of construction contracts, operation and maintenance, off-take agreements, corporate arrangements, shareholders' agreements, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions.
We have a versatile team, specializing in the relationship with regulatory agencies and qualified to meet all the demands of the companies in their new projects, which also involve tax, environmental, labor, and administrative litigation issues.
Chambers Review
Prominent full-service firm Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice combines the capabilities of a highly performing transactional practice with the cerebral approach needed to handle high-stakes public law matters. The combination has been continually drawing the market's attention and attracting respect as the firm piles up some of the most prominent and legally complex mandates in its portfolio. Machado Meyer's know-how of privatisation, government contracts and bidding processes has put the firm in the centre of Brazil's government infrastructure investment programme. Both state-owned and private companies from the banking and infrastructure sector frequently rely on this firm for its most important public law demands.
Work Highlights
- Machado Meyer has been assisting B3 since the beginning of 2023 in all legal matters related to the structuring and operationalization of Desenrola Brasil.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Q 1). Machado Meyer offers a distinctive blend of extensive transactional expertise alongside a profound understanding of public law and the infrastructure sector."
"Q 1). Machado Meyer offers a distinctive blend of extensive transactional expertise alongside a profound understanding of public law and the infrastructure sector."
Notable Practitioners
Head of department Lucas Sant'Anna is highly regarded among prominent clients and peers in the public law field. He is experienced in privatisation and concession bids, besides administrative and judicial procedures against government bodies.
"He always goes above and beyond. He is always ready to help."
"Excellent technological knowledge. He knows how to communicate with leaders from the United States and Europe."
"He knows all the important precedents and devises innovative theses."
José Virgílio Lopes Enei is an experienced professional and is frequently sought out to handle public projects of infrastructure, bidding procedures and concessions.
"José Virgílio Lopes Enei is a leading authority in infrastructure."
"He is a proactive and experienced lawyer."
Rafael Vanzella is well regarded for devising complex pre-litigation strategies for high-value regulatory disputes and issuing legal opinions.
"Rafael Vanzella is a skilled lawyer with unquestionable technical knowledge and a wide vision of the infrastructure market, which allows him to provide sophisticated solutions to complex legal issues."
"He has an excellent understanding of our business and how it is affected, always seeking to support us with the macro view and often beyond what is asked of him."
Associate-to-watch Pedro Saullo receives high praise for his work alongside the firm's partners in privatisations and biddings.
"Pedro Saullo shows a very significant level of knowledge."
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