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Thiago Cardoso Araújo

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Thiago Cardoso Araujo

Thiago Araújo holds a doctorate in Legal Theory from the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) and has served as a State Attorney with the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro (PGE/RJ) since 2006. He currently serves as Coordinator of the PGE/RJ Unit for Matters Before the Accounting Court, after having spent more than fifteen years heading the legal advisory office of the State Secretariat of Infrastructure and Public Works and the State Secretariat of Cities.

In advisory matters, he advises Brazilian state-owned and private companies on complex infrastructure projects. In litigation, he coordinates legal strategies and represents clients before administrative courts and Accounting Courts, as well as before a wide range of regulatory bodies.

Thiago is also an arbitrator at the Arbitration Chamber of Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), chair of the OAB/RJ Committee on External Control of Public Administration, a professor at the School of Economics of Getulio Vargas Foundation (EPGE), a professor in the undergraduate and graduate Law programs at FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV Direito Rio), and coordinator of the Graduate Program of the School of Public Advocacy of the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro (ESAP). He has published numerous articles in Brazil and abroad and is the author of Análise Econômica do Direito no Brasil – Uma leitura à luz da Teoria dos Sistemas, published by Editora Lumen Juris.

Education

Bachelor of Laws in Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) (2005)
Master’s in Public Law from UERJ (2009)
PhD in Law Theory from UERJ (2015)
MBA in PPP and Concessions from the London School of Economics in partnership with the São Paulo School of Sociology and Politics Foundation (FESPSP) (2018)
Executive training in “Infrastructure in a Market Economy: PPP in a Changing World” at the Harvard Kennedy School (2022)

Languages

Portuguese, English and Spanish

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Acknowledgment

Chambers Thiago
LeadersLeague 2026
LatAm Leading firm 2026 (1)
LL 250 2026 Recommended Rosette
SELO SELO REG ADVOGADO

Areas of
practice

Acknowledgment

Chambers Thiago
LeadersLeague 2026
LatAm Leading firm 2026 (1)
LL 250 2026 Recommended Rosette
SELO SELO REG ADVOGADO

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Our Information Technology Manager, Eduardo M., represented Bocater Advogados at “Mind The Sec”, Latin America’s largest cybersecurity and information security event. The conference, held between 15 and 17 September at the Transamérica Expo Centre in São Paulo, brought together industry experts and companies for almost 30 hours of

On 13 October, the OAB/RJ Committee on External Oversight of Public Administration, chaired by our partner Thiago Araújo, is organising a debate on the TCU’s jurisdiction over private individuals and the pension funds case. The discussion will take place from 10.00 am to 12.00 pm in the Professor

Our Information Technology Manager, Eduardo M., represented Bocater Advogados at “Mind The Sec”, Latin America’s largest cybersecurity and information security event. The conference, held between 15 and 17 September at the Transamérica Expo Centre in São Paulo, brought together industry experts and companies for almost 30 hours of

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