André Luiz Freire

Administrative Law; Infrastructure & Energy; Shipping & Ports; Litigation & Arbitration

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 (IBDA), president of the São Paulo Institute of Administrative Law (IDAP), and a member of the Brazilian Institute of Legal Infrastructure Studies (IBEJI).

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