Augusto Neves Dal Pozzo

Lawyer and founding partner of the Dal Pozzo Law Firm, Augusto Dal Pozzo has spent the past 25 years working on legal models in advanced infrastructure projects and building solutions to complex issues in the execution of public contracts. As a result of his widely recognized work in Brazil and abroad, including comprehensive studies conducted in his academic positions, Dal Pozzo possesses extensive knowledge of the legal challenges facing a diverse range of markets. His office, highly specialized in Administrative Law, Public Contracts and Regulation, is proud to have prepared the legal modeling for the first PPP in Brazil in the area of water and sewage treatment. The holistic view of each sector in all phases of a project helps Dal Pozzo give a quick diagnosis of issues facing clients to determine the optimal solution.

Dal Pozzo also serves as a professor of Administrative Law and Fundamentals of Public Law at the renowned law school of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (“Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC-SP”) and is the Coordinator of the Journal of Administrative Law and Infrastructure (RDAI), published by Editora Revista dos Tribunais Thomson Reuters, as well as Coordinator of the Brazilian Journal of Infrastructure (RBINF) and Coordinator of the International Journal of Public Law (RIDP). Dal Pozzo has published numerous articles and has authored or coordinated the publication of over twenty books in the areas of public law, administrative law, infrastructure and regulation.

Maintaining deep institutional relationships with acclaimed national and international entities, Dal Pozzo is one of the founders and the current President of the Brazilian Institute of Legal Studies in Infrastructure (IBEJI), the leading organization in Brazil applying scientific rigor to the challenges involving legal aspects of infrastructure projects. As an active lawyer, researcher and professor, Dal Pozzo has focused his efforts on building a dialogue between the professional practice and the academic world. Utilizing this unique breadth of experience, he takes the best academic methods to build a framework applicable to relevant infrastructure projects.

Dal Pozzo participates as the Brazilian Representative of the Committee of National Coordinators of the Red Iberoamericana de Contratación Pública, an international organization created to unite specialists on the theme of public procurement; member of the Institute of Administrative Law of São Paulo (IDAP); member of the Asociación Argentina de Derecho Administrativo (AADA); member of the International Bar Association (IBA); member of the Lawyers Institute of São Paulo (IASP); Member of the American Bar Association (ABA); member of the Foro Iberoamericano de Derecho Administrativo (FIDA); founding and honorary member of the Brazilian Institute of Law and Business Ethics (“Instituto Brasileiro de Direito e Ética Empresarial – IBDEE”), former president of the Infrastructure Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association and member of the Transparency and Integrity Principles in Infrastructure (TIPs) Project convened by the Inter-American Dialogue and the Inter-American Development Bank.