About Bloco Sertão Concession

Patria has recently secured a landmark concession in the sanitation sector: Bloco Sertão in Pernambuco. It’s a strategic project that spans 24 municipalities, serves 815,000 people, and reaches approximately 250,000 customers along the banks of the São Francisco River, with headquarters in Petrolina.

Our mission is ambitious and transformative:

• Guarantee reliable, continuous water supply

• Drive significant reductions in system losses

• Expand access to water and sewage services

All while improving quality of life and fostering sustainable development in one of Brazil’s most underserved regions. This concession also includes a social tariff program, benefiting over 60,000 households, underscoring our commitment to inclusive growth and long-term impact.

Join us in shaping the future—creating innovation, progress, and a legacy where it matters most.

Summary

Responsible for leading the legal and regulatory of the sanitation concessionaire, acting strategically, closely to the business and in direct interface with senior management. Fundamental to ensuring legal and regulatory compliance, supporting structuring decisions, guiding negotiations with public entities and regulatory agencies, and ensuring the integrity of concession contracts. With a broad and multifunctional role, the position requires a strong practical vision, autonomy, and the ability to translate legal complexity into objective solutions for the operation.

This position will be based in our Office in Petrolina, PE, Brazil in an full in person work model.

Responsibilities

• Manage and interpret concession agreements, regulatory matters, and institutional relationships with granting authorities, regulatory agencies, and oversight bodies.

• Handle a broad range of contracts, strategic litigation, corporate matters, and compliance, with strong prioritization and integrated business vision.

• Actively participate in matters such as economic–financial rebalancing, tariff reviews, regulatory claims, and contingency management.

• Structure and monitor legal and regulatory risks with a focus on value creation and preparation for divestment processes.

• Work collaboratively with finance, risk, engineering, and operations teams, as well as with external advisors, auditors, and consultants.

• Represent the company in interactions with authorities, regulatory entities, public stakeholders, and institutional partners.

Requirements

• A professional with solid experience in Administrative Law and regulated sectors—especially concessions, PPPs, utilities, and ideally sanitation. Strong background in contracts, strategic litigation, corporate law, and compliance, with the ability to prioritize and maintain an integrated business perspective.

• Able to translate legal and regulatory risks into financial, operational, and valuation impacts, supporting management and fund-level decisions. Skilled in structuring and monitoring risks with a focus on value creation and preparation for divestment processes.

• Demonstrates strong relationship, communication, and negotiation skills with regulators, investors, and strategic partners. Shows leadership across multiple legal, regulatory, and compliance fronts in highly regulated and politically sensitive environments, with an entrepreneurial, practical, and results-driven mindset.

• Hands-on profile, comfortable in contexts of transformation, growth, and divestment readiness. Advanced English required.

• Able to work on-site from Petrolina, PE.

Our Essence

Patria is, essentially, a long-lasting and resilient entrepreneurial Partnership, that continually assesses the environment and identifies trends. We quickly adapt our investments and product offering to capture investment opportunities derived from such analysis, delivering consistent results to our clients and creating long-lasting impact for all our stakeholders. We are home to professionals who carry this entrepreneurial spirit as a live and dynamic Partnership, where new members are welcome, and we evolve with their expertise and cultural characteristics. We know how to transform ideas into real business opportunities and are engaged in the development and perpetuation of the Partnership.

About Patria

Patria is made of high performers like you. Behind every result we achieve as a team, there are talented people with unique set of skills: From an entrepreneurial spirit to high a performance mindset. From high-level expertise to a hands-on approach.

It is through these qualities that we have fostered trusting relationships with each of our clients. We proudly highlight our high returns to our investors coupled with our unwavering commitment to ethical values.

That’s why we have been known as the regional and sector specialist in alternative asset management with on-the-ground expertise everywhere we operate. Patria anticipates trends to create long-lasting impact for all our stakeholders for over 35 years. We envision to keep delivering consistent results to better serve our clients.

Diversity

At Patria we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Our employment policies strictly prohibit all forms of discrimination on any of the grounds in relevant laws. All our employment practices are solely based on individual merit and our organization's needs at the time.