Contact
Contact
Lucas Sant'Anna
Lucas Sant'Anna
Partner
+55 11 3150-7000
Practice area
Lucas has extensive experience in public tenders and administrative contracts, concession of public works and services and public-private partnerships (PPPs), Administrative Improbity Law, Fiscal Responsibility Law and related matters. Frequently acts in modeling concessions, PPPs, contractual execution and disputes of a public law nature, such as arbitrations in contracts and construction, concessions, claims based on the Administrative Improbity Law, those before Audit Courts, Internal Affairs and other control bodies.
Recent acknowledgments
- Chambers & Partners Brazil: Public Law (2021-2023)
- Chambers Latin America - Public Law (2013-2021)
- The Legal 500 - Public Law (2014, 2017-2023)
- The Legal 500 Awards: recognized in Public Law (2023)
- Leaders League - Civil and Commercial Litigation and Public Law (2020-2023)
- Latin Lawyer 250 - Litigation (2014-2022) and Administrative Law (Public Law) (2014-2023)
- Latin Lawyer National - Administrative Law and Litigation (2020)
- LACCA Approved: Administrative Law (2015-2024)
- Client Choice Awards, by the International Law Office - Projects and Procurement (2015-2017, 2019) and Public Law (2015-2017, 2019, 2021-2022)
- Euromoney: Benchmark Litigation - Commercial as "Litigation Star" (2019, 2021)
- Análise Advocacia 500 - Concessions (2020) and Regulatory, Business Contracts and in São Paulo (2021)
Education
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil (Doctorate in Administrative Law, 2023 - expected)
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil (Master’s degree in Administrative Law, 2016)
- Columbia University School of Law, New York, United States (Master’s degree in Law, 2010)
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC-SP, Brazil (Bachelor of Laws, 2004)
Other qualifications
- Post-graduation professor in PPPs and Concessions at PUC-Minas
- Coordinator of ABDIB's Highway Committee (2019 to 2021)
- Author of the book "Budgetary Aspects of PPPs", Almedina (2018)
- Legal advisor to the Brazilian Association of Highway Concessionaires - ABCR (2006 to 2008)
- Student at the School of Government of USP (2005)
Relevant experience
- Simpson Thacher and Bartlett, New York, United States (2008 to 2009)
Entities
- Brazilian Bar Association (OAB)
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- International Union of Lawyers (UIA)