André Luiz Freire
Brazil Guide 2024
Band 5 : Public Law
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About
Provided by André Luiz Freire
Practice Areas
Administrative Law; Infrastructure & Energy; Shipping & Ports; Education
Career
André Luiz advises in our Infrastructure & Energy and Project Finance practices, with a particular focus on administrative law. As an expert in this area, he assists clients with structuring public concessions, public-private partnerships (PPPs), expression of interest procedures, public bids and auctions, administrative proceedings before regulatory agencies and in cases involving audit courts and the Court of Audit of the Federal Government (TCU). André Luiz acts on behalf of construction companies, infrastructure investment funds, public service and construction work concessionaries and transportation, roadway, railroad, port and airport logistics, as well as sanitation, metallurgy and mining, base industry and asset management. A professor in the General Theory of Law Department at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), André Luiz is a member of the Advisory Board of the Brazilian Institute of Administrative Law (IDAP), São Paulo Institute of Administrative Law (IDAP) and Brazilian Institute of Legal Infrastructure Studies (IBEJI).
Education
Unicuritiba, Paraná
Bachelor of Laws
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Master of Laws in Administrative Law
University of Virginia (USA)
Master of Laws (LL.M.)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Doctor of Laws in Administrative Law
University of Virginia (USA)
S.J.D. in Philosophy of Law
University of Coimbra, (Portugal)
Postdoctoral Degree in Democracy and Human Rights, Ius Gentium Conimbrigae
Chambers Review
Brazil: Industries & Sectors
Partner André Luiz Freire regularly advises clients on PPP and concession agreements and bidding processes.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"André Luiz Freire is incredibly technical, precise in his explanations, and is always willing to discuss and choose the best course of action and strategy."
"André is a partner with great technical knowledge, extremely up-to-date."
"André Luiz Freire is incredibly technical, precise in his explanations, and is always willing to discuss and choose the best course of action and strategy."
"André is a partner with great technical knowledge, extremely up-to-date."