Infrastructure and Regulatory & Government Affairs

Our specialist knowledge combined with our hands-on experience help make us one of the few Brazilian law firms able to provide legal support throughout the entire lifecycle of infrastructure projects. We also represent national and international clients before Brazil’s various federal and state regulatory agencies, and advise companies in competitive bidding processes, concessions, and public-private partnerships.

Offering a broad range of advisory and litigation services, we help structure deals, designing efficient legal structures; provide legal support in bidding procedures, public consultations, project financing and contract negotiations; and assist clients in maintaining concessions and other grants, acting on their behalf in complex discussions with the government authorities and entities involved. 

With our team of experienced specialists, we have the capacity to meet the demands made by the most sophisticated projects and to provide efficient legal support to national and international companies in transactions of varying complexity. Our multidisciplinary approach also enables us to assist clients in matters that arise in the daily course of their business, since we can count on the other practice areas within BMA to find intelligent solutions that minimize risks.

Our teams have a solid understanding of administrative and regulatory law, which allows us to act in the full range of government litigation, from administrative proceedings, bidding disputes, and government budget oversight boards to actions for judicial review and revision of government contracts. We also offer advisory and litigation support in matters related to the legislation on administrative misconduct and corruption.

Our firm’s history tracks the emergence and development of the regulatory frameworks in Brazilian infrastructure sectors, such as energy, natural gas, sanitation, telecommunications, media, private health, mining and transport.

We played an active role in the deals generated by this evolution, acquiring an invaluable depth of experience in infrastructure. It is this history that enables us to analyze apparently new demands and quickly find efficient solutions by adapting tools and instruments developed earlier. Although each sector has its peculiarities, our transactional mindset means that our focus is always on the client’s business and risk-smart solutions. Although every project presents risks, BMA stands out for the way we address that risk and help our clients to allocate it efficiently. This practical, results-oriented approach is our trademark, and it’s reflected in the variety of our clients, and the range of our work in infrastructure projects and regulatory matters.