AROEIRA SALLES - Key Persons
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- Founding Partner
- Partner
- Board Member of the International Construction Law Association
- Founding Partners
Alexandre is founding partner of Aroeira Salles and has advised on some of the most important public projects in Brazil. Examples include: World Cup and Olympic Games projects such as Maracanã stadium (the biggest stadium in Brazil); airports; subways; railroads; roads; ports; oil refineries and platforms; hydroelectric power plants; a nuclear power plant; and industrial nickel production and natural gas refining projects.
Alexandre's areas of expertise include: (i) processes in the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU); (ii) public bidding processes; (iii) Public-Private Partnerships (PPP); (iv) legal management of construction, oil & gas and energy contracts; (v) administrative improbity actions; and (vi) judicial actions and arbitration proceedings.
Alexandre is board member of the International Construction Law Association and founding member of the Brazil Infrastructure Institute and the Brazilian Institute of Law and Control of the Public Administration (IBDCAP).
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- Electronic Document Management - Library
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- Receptionist - Administrative
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- Bilingual Receptionist - Administrative
Clara is a senior associate. She joined Aroeira Salles in 2007, graduated in 2008 from the Milton Campos Law School and has a post-graduate qualification in Civil Procedural Law from the same university.
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- Communication and Marketing
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- Partner
- Partner of the Firm
Francisco Freitas de Melo Franco Ferreira is a new partner of Aroeira Salles.
Francisco is a partner of the Firm and recognized by clients as among the most protected and admired Brazilian lawyers in Civil Procedural Law, Administrative Law and Contractual. He receives the trust of large Brazilian and multinational conglomerates, to defend them in collection proceedings, improbity, annulment of acts and administrative decisions derived from contracts and complex disputes.
Francisco is an active member of the international legal community speaking at conferences and producing academic materials for international publications. Francisco also regularly advises together with British lawyers especially on resolution of international disputes and anti-corruption matters.
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- Administrative Supervisor
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- Partner
- Partner - São Paulo
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- Partner
- Partner - Rio De Janeiro
- Partner Specialized in Legal Project Management, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, and Internal and External Control of Public Administration
Mariana is a partner at the firm, leading the Contract Management Team and working with the International Team. Her areas of expertise include contract and project management in both public and private sectors, public tenders and private bids, administrative processes, concessions and regulations, litigation, and dispute resolution.
Mariana advises clients in several areas, mainly in the infrastructure and construction, naval, energy and oil and gas sectors. She has expertise in respect of public and private contracts, working on important road, railway and airport transportation and shipbuilding projects as well as urban and industrial infrastructure projects in Brazil.
Mariana has been independently recognised as a leading lawyer in the naval category in Análise 500 which is the main legal directory in Brazil.
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- Partner
- Partner - Belo Horizonte
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- Associate
- Partner
- Founding Member of the Brazilian Institute of Law
- Partner - São Paulo
Nayron holds a Law Degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2006), an MBA in Project Management from IBMEC and a post-graduate qualification in Criminal Law and Compliance from the Institute of Economic and European Criminal Law (Idpee).
He began his career as a lawyer at Aroeira Salles in 2006 where he developed extensive knowledge in the area of cost engineering, successfully advising clients in respect of various public and private projects, especially in the infrastructure, energy and oil and gas sectors. Nayron has significant experience defending clients in proceedings before control bodies, especially the Federal Court of Accounts, relating to some of the most significant projects in Brazil including oil refineries, subway systems, football stadiums, airports, water supply projects and highways.
In 2010, Nayron became an associate at Aroeira Salles and, between 2010 and 2012, he coordinated the Audit Courts' control department. Throughout his career, he has expanded his legal practice, which now includes the legal management of complex infrastructure contracts, including concessions; representing clients in respect of criminal actions and administrative impropriety actions; advising on public tender processes, PPPs and RDCs; filing actions for the judicial review of decisions in TCEs (State Audit Courts), as well as defending clients in proceedings before control bodies - especially the Federal Court of Accounts.
Nayron is a founding member of the Brazilian Institute of Law and Control of the Public Administration (IBDCAP) and he has been a member of the Special Study Commission for the creation of standard rules on "Budgets and Price Formation of Infrastructure and Building Enterprises - ABNT / CEE-162." He currently actively participates in the Airports, Roads, Urban Mobility, Water Resources and Basic Sanitation and Petroleum and Natural Gas Committees of the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Base Industries (ABDIB).
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- Founding Partner
- Partner
- Founding Member of the Brazilian Institute of Law
Patrícia is a Founding Member of the Brazilian Institute of Law and Control of the Public Administration - IBDCAP, of the Brazil Infrastructure Institute and she participated in the Special Study Commission on Elaboration of Budgeting and Price Formation of Infrastructure and Building Enterprises - ABNT / CEE-162.
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- Receptionist - Administrative
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- Human Resources Coordinator