Fernando Vernalha Guimarães

Specialized Lawyer and Consultant in Public Law and Infrastructure. Areas of expertise: administrative and regulatory law; privatizations, concessions and PPPs; public procurement; water and sanitation; transportation; oil and gas; energy; telecommunications; and public law litigation.

Founder and Senior Partner of Vernalha Pereira, with relevant academic and professional background in public law and infrastructure matters. Legal advisor in some of the most important infrastructure projects in Brazil and in relevant contentious and non-contentious public law cases. Invited professor of administrative law of several institutions. Former Consultant of the Public-Private Partnership Unit of the Brazilian Ministry of Planning.

- Member of the Editorial Board of Public Contracts Magazine - Revista Luso-brasileira de Contratos Públicos

- PPP Brazil portal contributor

- Columnist for the business area of the Jovem Pan News portal

- Contributor to Magazine of Bids and Contracts - Revista Zênite de Licitações e Contratos

Author of books, such as: Public-Private Partnerships; Public Utilities Concession; and Unilateral Change of the Administrative Contract. Co-author of the book Public Bidding. Author of several book chapters and many articles, courses and lectures in the field of Public Law and Infrastructure. Author of many papers laureated in Administrative Law seminars.

Columbia Law School - Columbia University

Visiting Scholar

2017 - 2017

Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Doctor of Laws in Public Law

2006 - 2008

Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Master of Laws in Public Law

2001 - 2003

Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Bachelor of Laws

1988 - 1993