Barbara Rosenberg
Brazil Guide 2024
Star Individuals : Competition/Antitrust
Star Individuals
About
Provided by Barbara Rosenberg
Practice Areas
Competition Law
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Career
Barbara Rosenberg is one of BMA’s Competition and Antitrust partners. She acts for companies involved in mergers and acquisitions in notifications and other proceedings before Brazil’s competition authority, CADE, and represents clients in investigations of anticompetitive conduct. She also advises on competition compliance matters and in reviewing commercial practices. Barbara has been involved in the main M&A transactions in Brazil over the last decade.
Barbara has exceptional experience acting for companies in approval of mergers and acquisitions by CADE, Brazil’s competition authority, and in representing clients in investigations into anticompetitive conduct, including cartels. She also advises on competition compliance matters, and assists business in reviewing their commercial practices to ensure conformity with competition laws.
Barbara has been involved in the main M&A transactions in Brazil over the last decade, in both value and complexity. Her clients include a wide range of national and international companies doing business in various markets, such as retail, pharmaceuticals, technology, chemicals, electronics, food and beverages, and in the education, aviation, logistics and infrastructure sectors.
She was part of the Brazilian federal competition authority for three years, from 2003 to 2005, as Director of the Economic Protection and Defense Department of the Economic Law Secretariat (SDE - Secretaria de Direito Econômico), attached to the Ministry of Justice. She was an associate with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in the United States. Barbara lectured in Competition Law, International Trade, and Intellectual Property in continuing education courses at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation Law School from 2004 to 2012.
She is a frequent speaker at events related to her area of practice, and contributes to publications on competition and antitrust law.
Awards
Competition and Antitrust Lawyer of the Year
The Legal 500
2024
Lawyer of the Year
Global Competition Review
2015
Lawyer of the Year - Competition – Future Leaders
Who’s Who Legal
2017
Chambers Review
Brazil: Contentious
Star individual Barbara Rosenberg has built an impressive reputation as a leading practitioner in the Brazilian competition area. She is renowned for handling complex merger control mandates for high-profile national and international market players from across several industry sectors, with remarkable sophistication and expertise.
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"Barbara is brilliant and an excellent benchmark in her field."
"Barbara Rosemberg is very responsive. She communicates well and provides details that I'd not otherwise get."
"Barbara Rosenberg is a Star Individual without a shadow of a doubt."
"Barbara is excellent at building teams. Everyone in her team is thorough and responsive."
"Barbara is brilliant and an excellent benchmark in her field."
"Barbara Rosemberg is very responsive. She communicates well and provides details that I'd not otherwise get."
"Barbara Rosenberg is a Star Individual without a shadow of a doubt."
"Barbara is excellent at building teams. Everyone in her team is thorough and responsive."
Articles, highlights and press releases
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10 years after enactment of Brazil’s Competition Law
Ten years after enactment of Brazil’s Competition Law, covid-19 has not affected policy and enforcement
10 years after enactment of Brazil’s Competition Law
Ten years after enactment of Brazil’s Competition Law, covid-19 has not affected policy and enforcement