João Geraldo Piquet Carneiro

Main Practice Areas

Administrative Law, Antitrust and Competition Law, Litigation .

Professional Experience

Veirano Advogados' Regional Antitrust Coordinator.

João Geraldo Piquet Carneiro focuses his practice in administrative law, antitrust law and litigation. He has extensive experience in arguing cases before the administrative agencies, including regulatory and antitrust agencies and accounting courts, as well as in arguing cases before the higher courts in Brasília.

Piquet Carneiro has served in various positions in the Brazilian public administration. He was a member of the first Federal Privatization Committee in Brazil and was the Executive Secretary (1979-1982) and Coordinator of the National Debureaucratization Program, with a status of Ministry (1983-1985). He also served as the Secretary of Administration of the Federal District (1985), as member of the Tax Reform Committee (1992), as advisor of the National Deregulation Program (1990-1992), as member of the University of São Paulo’s Group of Constitutional Revision (1993), and as member of the State Reform Council (1996- 1998).

More recently, Piquet Carneiro has served as the chairman of the Public Ethics Commission of the Brazilian Federal Government (1999-2004).

Chambers of Commerce and Associations

• American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham-DF).
• Brazilian Bar Association (Chapter of DF);
• Brazilian Academy of Administrative Sciences;
• Chairman of Hélio Beltrão Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement of the Public Administration;
• International Bar Association (IBA);
• Judging Committee of the Innovare Award (best court practices); and
• World Services Group (WSG).

Publications

• Author of several articles and essays on administrative reform, reform of the judicial system, debureaucratization, antitrust and deregulation.

Academical Activities

• Professor of Economic Law at the Catholic University and at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, both in Rio de Janeiro (1972-1975~); and
• Lecturer in many seminars involving antitrust, regulation and debureaucratization.

Education

LL.M. (1965)
New York University (1965)

Bachelor of Laws (1963)
Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ)

Languages

Portuguese and English.

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