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Thiago de Oliveira
Partner
Praça Pio X, 15 – 3th floor
20040-020 Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Phone:
+55 21 2223-8818
E-mail:
thiago@siqueiracastro.com.br
- AREA OF ACTIVITY
- ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
- MEMBERSHIPS
- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- PUBLICATIONS
- Airports / Highways / Railways / Ports / Basic Sanitation / Communications and Telecommunications
- Compliance, Integrity Programs and Corporate Ethics
- Constitutional and Government Relations
- Administrative, Regulatory, Infrastructure Law and PPPs
- Economic and Competition Law
- Maritime Law
- Mining Law
- Public Law
- Renewable Energy
- Forestry Investments
- Oil and Gas
- Privatizations and Concessions
- Electric Power Sector
- Third Sector
- Urban Mobility
- Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
- Master’s Degree in Public Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
- PhD in Public Law from the University of Lisbon, Portugal (UL)
- Former Visiting Researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) – Germany
- Former Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law – Heidelberg, Germany
- Languages: Portuguese and English
- Member of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB)
- Member of the Administrative Law Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association – Rio de Janeiro Chapter (CODA-RJ)
- Member of the Rio de Janeiro Administrative Law Group (GDA-RJ)
- Member of the General Council of the Brazilian Institute of Municipal Administration (IBAM)
With over 20 years of professional experience as a lawyer, focusing on the regulatory field. He works in administrative, regulatory, and infrastructure law, including public tenders, administrative contracts, privatizations, concessions, and the regulation of sensitive industries (such as highways, ports, airports, energy, oil and gas, sanitation, telecommunications, and transportation). His work encompasses legal models for partnerships with the public sector, legal issues arising from the execution of administrative contracts signed with the Public Administration, both direct and indirect, and administrative proceedings before Courts of Accounts and regulatory agencies.
Graduated in Law from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Thiago holds a Master’s degree in Public Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and a Ph.D. in Public Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon/Portugal (FDUL). He is also a member of the Administrative Law Commission of the OAB-RJ and a tenured professor in the Public Law Department at the Faculty of Law of UFRRJ. He has published books and articles in the field of public law.
- Recognized by Análise Advocacia in the specialties of Compliance (2021), Regulatory (2021, 2022, and 2025), and in the state of Rio de Janeiro (2021, 2022).
- Recognized by The Legal 500 in the area of Public Law (2022, 2023, and 2024).
- Recognized by Leaders League in the areas of Projects and Infrastructure (2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025) and Power Law (2025).
- Recognized by Leaders League – Transactions & Deals in the areas of Projects and Infrastructure (2025) and Power Law (2025).
- OLIVEIRA, Thiago de. Municipal competence. Rights of children and adolescents. Local public policy. Recommending notification by the State Public Prosecutor’s Office. Budgetary aspects. Revista de Administração Municipal, Rio de Janeiro, v. 53, n. 264, p. 66-70, Oct./Dec. 2007.
- OLIVEIRA, Thiago de. The role of the Court of Auditors and the Judiciary in the control of municipal public finances. Revista de Administração Municipal, Rio de Janeiro, v. 51, n. 257, p. 49-50, Jan./Mar. 2006.
- OLIVEIRA, Thiago de. Legislative Process. Preparation of the budget law and the power of parliamentary amendments. Revista de Administração Municipal, Rio de Janeiro, v. 50, n. 252, p. 48-50, Mar./Apr. 2005.
- OLIVEIRA, Thiago de. Accumulation of positions, jobs, and functions in public health and state control. Revista Virtual da Femperj, Rio de Janeiro, 2003.
- MAIA, Juliana Kryssia Lopes; OLIVEIRA, Thiago de. Administrative and criminal responsibility under Law No. 14.133/2021 and applicable sanctions. In: CHAUVET, Rodrigo da Fonseca; CASTILHOS, Cristiano Borges (Coord.). Novelties and challenges of the public procurement and administrative contracts law: Law No. 14.133/2021. Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris, 2022. ISBN 9788551920138. 392 p.
- COIMBRA, Alberto Felipe Lima; OLIVEIRA, Thiago de. Retroactive effects of amendments to the Administrative Misconduct Law: an analysis of court decisions on the topic. CHAUVET, Rodrigo da Fonseca; CASTILHOS, Cristiano Borges; GRAÇA, Guilherme Mello (Coord.). Administrative misconduct: main aspects of Law No. 8.429/1992 in light of the amendments introduced by Law No. 14.230/2021. Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris, 2023.
- OLIVEIRA, Thiago de. The Principle of Equality and Collective Entities: some controversial points. In: DONIZETTI, Elpídio; GARBIN, Rosana Broglio; OLIVEIRA, Thiago de (Org.). Various approaches to the principle of equality. Belo Horizonte: Fórum, 2014. ISBN 9788577008193. 506 p.
- OLIVEIRA, Thiago de. Local power and Brazilian federalism. Preface by José Ribas Vieira. Belo Horizonte: Fórum, 2014.
- OLIVEIRA, Thiago de. The ownership of fundamental rights by collective entities: possibility and limits: expansive interpretation and agreement with individual fundamental rights. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jorge Manuel de Moura Loureiro de Miranda. 2022. XXX pages. PhD thesis in Legal and Political Sciences – Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 2022.
- OLIVEIRA, Thiago de. Federation, democracy, and social control in light of the theory of local power: overcoming centralism in Brazilian federalism. Advisor: Prof.ª Dr.ª Ana Paula de Barcellos. 2009. XXX pages. Master’s thesis in Public Law – Faculty of Law, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2009.
- OLIVEIRA, Thiago de. Social fundamental rights and transformations in labor relations: a proposal for harmony between social issues and capital. Advisor: Prof. Dr. José Ribas Vieira. 2003. Undergraduate thesis in Law – Faculty of Law, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2003.
- Book: Diversos Enfoques do Princípio da Igualdade [“Various Aspects of the Principle of Equality”], article “O Princípio da Igualdade e as Pessoas Coletivas: alguns pontos polêmicos” [“The Principle of Equality and Collective Entities: Some polemic points”]; preface by Jorge Miranda (professor and thesis advisor at UL); Fórum, published in February 2014.
- Book: O Poder Local e o Federalismo Brasileiro [“Local Power and Brazilian Federalism”], preface by Professor José Ribas Vieira; Fórum; published in July 2010, fruit of the LL.M. dissertation written under the guidance of Professor Ana Paula de Barcellos.
- Author of various published articles and legal opinions in the area of public law.