Competition/Antitrust
Brazil Guide 2024 : Brazil
Band 1
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+55 11 5086 5000About
Provided by TozziniFreire Advogados
The Antitrust and Competition practice group has extensive experience representing our clients before the Brazilian Antitrust Commission (CADE), including negotiating leniency agreements and cease agreements under the Brazilian Competition Law, as well as handling premerger notification filings and regulatory clearance for complex M&A transactions. The group also provides all stages of antitrust compliance counseling, including developing compliance programs tailored to client-specific needs, to improve risk management and reduce violations.
Recognized as among the cadre of elite antitrust lawyers in Brazil, the team is led by Marcelo Calliari, a former counsel of CADE. The Antitrust and Competition practice is one of the largest in Brazil and one of the firm’s most active, with experience handling hundreds of market concentration cases and major merger and business conduct investigations.
Chambers Review
TozziniFreire's prestigious team is widely respected for handling the negotiation of sensitive leniency agreements connected to cartel investigations. Clients further benefit from its multidisciplinary expertise within the competition arena, including merger review proceedings, compliance programmes and defence in anti-competitive conduct cases before CADE. The team is also active in judicial disputes arising from antitrust-related damage claims.
Work Highlights
- TozziniFreire advised ADM, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus and SustainIt on the merger clearance for a joint venture to develop and operate a platform that provides data for global food and agricultural supply chains.
Strengths
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"Their team displayed a high level of expertise, great responsiveness and were super efficient in closing the deal as previously planned. Super professional."
"TozziniFreire has excellent lawyers with a pragmatic and responsive approach. They have a good team with both litigation and merger control experts able to deal with cross-border matters."
"Their team displayed a high level of expertise, great responsiveness and were super efficient in closing the deal as previously planned. Super professional."
"TozziniFreire has excellent lawyers with a pragmatic and responsive approach. They have a good team with both litigation and merger control experts able to deal with cross-border matters."
Notable Practitioners
Distinguished head of department Marcelo Calliari has a notable reputation for his long-standing expertise in sophisticated domestic and cross-border cartel investigations, as well as related negotiation of leniency agreements.
"Marcelo Calliari is an exceptional lawyer."
"He is the senior statesman of their team. Marcello is very strategic and is well known and respected inside and outside CADE. He is very good when dealing with clients."
Guilherme Ribas is admired by clients for his adept handling of competition mandates. He often assists clients with sophisticated merger control proceedings, investigations, leniency agreements and monitorings before CADE.
"Guilherme is well engaged, very responsive and displays a strong know-how. He is also super organized and shows high adherence in the schedule agreed."
"He is terrific. Guilherme offers a very comforting presence for his clients as he is responsive and able to work effectively on teams involving other law firms and jurisdictions."
"Guilherme is very knowledgeable in competition and antitrust matters especially in the energy sector."
Marcel Medon Santos is frequently retained by companies to negotiate agreements and conduct investigations related to anticompetitive behaviour, as well as to file merger reviews before CADE. Santos is also active in judicial disputes involving cartel damage claims.
"He is our focal point for antitrust issues. Marcel is very serious and a skilled professional who is very available and present at meetings."
"Marcel is a reliable professional who has a lot of experience. He can objectively processes information and provides a very practical risk assessment."
Tatiana Lins Cruz is well regarded in the market for her activity in competition matters. She often represents clients in mandates involving cartel investigations and negotiation of leniency agreements. Cruz has further experience in antitrust-related damage litigation.
"Tatiana is a highly skilled lawyer for cartel cases."
"She is our main point of contact and is always available.Tatiana handled our case from the start and submitted our fillings while displaying high knowledge and responsibility."
Joining our Up and Coming ranking this year, partner Vivian Fraga is experienced in conducting merger reviews, horizontal and vertical commercial agreements, abuse of dominance and especially cartels investigations. Clients benefit from years of experience in this field, especially due to her background working at CADE.
"Vivian is proactive, knowledgeable and was very committed to finding solutions."
"She has a lot of experience and is very active in investigations."
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Members
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Head of Department
Patricia Bandouk Carvalho
Vivian Fraga