Biography: Public Procurement

Marçal Justen Filho is the senior partner and founder of Justen, Pereira, Oliveira & Talamini. The firm is active in the fields of administrative law, public procurement, government contracts and regulation, with offices in São Paulo, Brasília and Curitiba.

His expert practice and numerous publications in public law have gained him international recognition as a reference lawyer in Brazil for infrastructure and public procurement. He has acted as counsel or provided expert legal opinions on many of the largest government and infrastructure projects in Brazil for the past 15 years. He has also acted as counsel, arbitrator and legal expert in international and domestic arbitrations concerning telecommunications, energy and regulated markets.

His books include Comments on the Public Procurement Act (14th ed, 2010), Administrative Law (7th ed, 2011), Procurement Auction (5th ed, 2009), General Theory of Public Service Concessions (2002) and Independent Regulatory Agencies Law (2001). He has published numerous articles on a vast array of public law subjects and co-edits a specialised Brazilian journal (RDPE). He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and seminars and has delivered hundreds of lectures to legal and government procurement departments in Brazil.

Marçal Justen Filho was a law school professor for 28 years until 2006. He obtained his LLM (1984) and PhD (1985) at PUC/SP and has been a visiting researcher at Yale Law School and a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He is a citizen of Brazil and Italy and is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Italian.