Rafael Pereira Fernandes

São Paulo/SP

rafael.fernandes@manesco.com.br

+55 (11) 3068-4700

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

Master’s degree in State Law from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), in progress.

Law degree from Universidade de São Paulo (USP), in 2015.

Rafael Pereira Fernandes

It operates in the highways sector, providing regulatory advice, drafting requests for economic-financial rebalancing and the legal structuring of concession and PPP projects.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

-Structuring highway concession projects with ANTT;
-Structuring highway concession projects in the State of São Paulo;
-Structuring highway concession projects under the RS Parcerias program, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul;
-Structuring federal and state highway concession projects structured at the BNDES Project Factory;
-Defense of a highway concessionaire in administrative sanctioning proceedings initiated by ANTT
-Defense of a highway concessionaire in the process of applying the Rebalancing Discount to ANTT;
-Defense of a highway concessionaire in the State of Paraná in an administrative accountability process (PAR), initiated based on the Anti-Corruption Law;
-Risk analysis in the acquisition of a federal highway concessionaire in the State of Mato Grosso.

PUBLICATIONS

• The impact of the New Rules for the Payment of Judiciary Bonds • Pioneer Financing Initiative at VLT PPP in Bahia • National Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES) suspends loan collection on an emergency basis • Emergency hirings require precaution • Amendments to RCR2 on the term of enrollment and transfer of goods in road concessions • CONTRAN takes another step towards the conversion of Brazilian highways to free flow • ANTT starts the discussion of the risk allocation of the 5th Stage contracts • What does ANTT's regulatory agenda reserve for the logistics sector in this 2023/24 biennium? • What to expect from the regulatory sandbox at ANTT? • ANTT approves regulatory changes for road concessions