Lunchtime Seminar - Investment & Infrastructure in Brazil: Challenges & Opportunities
Synopsis
Brazil has experienced significant growth in the past decade but is now facing infrastructural challenges. Sustainable economic growth is not possible without adequate infrastructure. Therefore, direct investment in sectors such as telecommunications, highways, airports, hotels and public transportation are important in order to guarantee consistent growth in the next few years.
Investment in infrastructure celebrates another important stage in the profound economic changes that Latin America in general, and Brazil in particular, have experienced since the nineties. Macroeconomic stability and privatizations have been two convergent effects which have combined with the current situation to create a structural lever for development. In this context, infra-structure contracts are very important, especially administrative ones, such as Concessions, Private Public Partnerships and procurement.
Although Brazil is a distant and exotic place for Singaporeans, there are investment opportunities in Brazil, from tourism and services to roads and airports. This seminar explores Brazil’s need of continued reform and investment opportunities in Brazil especially for the Asian investors.
Speaker's Profile
Prof. Marcos Nobrega
Professor Nobrega graduated from the Federal University of Pernambuco – Brazil with a PhD and Masters in law and a Bachelor's in Economics, Business Administration and Law. He continues to develop his extensive research regarding infrastructure contracts, which was his focus during his post-doctorates in Harvard Law School (2008) and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2011) (Senior Fellow). Professor Nobrega was also a visiting professor at Lisbon University (2012-2013). He is currently a visiting fellow at the Centre of Cross-Border Commercial Law in Asia, Singapore Management University, working on infrastructure, contracts and Public Private Partnerships.
Professor Nobrega’s professional experience is focused on economics, public contracts, Public Private Partnerships, concessions and fiscal policy. He authored over 13 books with the most recent, entitled “Infrastructure and Investments in Brazil: Economic and Legal Aspects”, released last year in Singapore.
MODERATOR’S PROFILE
Gerald Singham is a partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP.
Gerald's principal areas of practice are commercial and corporate law. His practice focuses on a broad range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and foreign direct investment. He has considerable experience in corporate and cross-border transactions.
Gerald's practice also covers competition law and he has experience advising a broad range of industries on competition law matters. He deals with all aspects of competition law including merger notification, notifying anti-competitive agreements for guidance and decision, handling investigations by the Competition Commission of Singapore and the drafting and reviewing of agreements and practices for compliance with competition law.
Gerald has extensive experience in foreign direct investment in advising foreign business and corporations aiming to invest in Singapore and works closely with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) - a Singapore government statutory board established to facilitate foreign investments in Singapore.
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