Partner at Rennó Penteado Sampaio since 2017, working with administrative, regulatory and competition law, Patrícia Sampaio has extensive experience in consulting involving regulated sectors in general, as well as in transportation infrastructure, electric energy, oil and gas, and sanitation. She is a professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Law in Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio), where she is a permanent member of the master’s and doctoral programs in regulatory law. She is a member of the Pedagogic Committee of the Law, Economy, and Justice Program (DEJ) at FGV Direito Rio and one of the coordinators of the Regulating in Numbers Project at FGV Direito Rio. She is a member of the Special Commission on Electric Energy (CEELE) of OAB-RJ and the Administrative Law Commission of the Institute of Brazilian Attorneys (IAB).

PhD from USP Law School

Master’s Degree from USP Law School

Bachelor’s Degree in law, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO)

Aguiar Dias Award, OAB-RJ, 2002;

Women in Law 2021, nominated in the following areas: Antitrust, Consumer, Regulatory, Pulp and Paper, Specialized Services, and Rio de Janeiro.

SAMPAIO, Patrícia Regina Pinheiro. Regulation and competition: the role of CADE in infrastructure sectors. São Paulo: Saraiva, 2013.

SAMPAIO, Patrícia Regina Pinheiro. Competition law and obligation to settle. Rio de Janeiro: Elsevier, 2009.

SAMPAIO, Patrícia Regina Pinheiro; DAYCHOUM, Mariam. Regulation and competition in the railway sector. Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Iuris, 2017.

STRINGHINI, Adriano; ARAGÃO, Alexandre Santos de; SAMPAIO, Patrícia Regina Pinheiro. Administrative servitude and sharing of infrastructure: regulation and competition. Rio de Janeiro: Forense, 2005.

BARBOSA, Fernando de Holanda; GUERRA, Sergio; SAMPAIO, Patrícia Regina Pinheiro. Financial equilibrium in infrastructure projects and the flexible IRR. Rio de Janeiro: FGV Projetos, 2019.

SAMPAIO, Patrícia Regina Pinheiro; SAMPAIO, Rômulo Silveira da Rocha. The challenges of regulating water and sanitation tariffs under a three-level shared-authority federalism model: The case of Brazil. Utilities Policy, v. 64, 2020.

SAMPAIO, Patrícia Regina Pinheiro; DAYCHOUM, Mariam. Two decades of rail regulatory reform in Brazil (1996-2016). Utilities Policy, 2017.

PINHEIRO, Armando Castelar; PORTO, Antonio José Maristrello; SAMPAIO, Patrícia Regina Pinheiro (org.). Law and economics: dialogues. Rio de Janeiro: FGV, 2019.

PINHEIRO, Armando Castelar; PORTO, Antonio José Maristrello; SAMPAIO, Patrícia Regina Pinheiro (org.). Topics in law and economics. Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Iuris, 2021.