Ticiana Lima

Practice Areas

Antitrust

Career

Ticiana’s practice is focused on representing clients in cartel investigations and unilateral conducts, including the negotiation of agreements with the Brazilian antitrust authority (CADE), assisting them in large national and international mergers and acquisitions, and in the design and implementation of compliance programs. Ticiana also provides clients with preventive consultancy in competitive matters. Her clients include national and international companies from a wide-range of sectors such as healthcare, infrastructure, logistics, and beverages.

Prior to joining VMCA as a partner, Ticiana served as the head advisor of the Office of the President at CADE, when she actively participated in the analysis of dozens of complex merger cases, cartel and unilateral conducts investigations. During her tenure at CADE, she played a relevant role in the structuring of the new authority, especially in drafting and implementing some of the main regulations in place today, such as the resolution for merger filings in Brazil.

Her previous experience also includes serving as an international advisor to the Secretariat of Economic Law at the Ministry of Justice, working as a competition law and economic regulation lawyer at Lefosse/Linklaters and being a Bluebook Trainee at the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission.

Personal

PhD, Master of Laws and Bachelor of Laws from the University of São Paulo (USP). Ticiana holds an LL.M degree from Harvard University.

Languages Spoken

Portuguese, English, Spanish and French