André Luiz Freire > Mattos Filho > Sao Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile

André Luiz Freire

+55 11 3147 4601 andre.freire@mattosfilho.com.br View profile View profile

Work Department

Administrative Law; Infrastructure and Energy; Shipping and Ports; Education

Position

Partner

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).

Languages

Portuguese; English; Spanish

Education

• Bachelor of Laws – Unicuritiba, Paraná;

  Master of Laws in Administrative Law – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP);

  Master of Laws (LL.M.) – University of Virginia (USA);

  Doctor of Laws in Administrative Law – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP);

  S.J.D. in Philosophy of Law – University of Virginia (USA);

  Postdoctoral Degree in Democracy and Human Rights, Ius Gentium Conimbrigae – University of Coimbra, (Portugal).