We believe defending our client’s interests in the regular course of their businesses is intimately associated with providing comprehensive prevention-focused advice.

The Brazilian Antitrust Authority (CADE) has been signaling more rigorous enforcement in the last years when analyzing M&A and joint ventures transactions and investigating cartels and anticompetitive conducts.

Prior identification of risks enables companies to avoid antitrust problems or even to anticipate negotiating remedies with authorities to prevent and/or reduce fines imposed by antitrust authorities in Brazil.

Our extensive expertise in Antitrust and Competition Law allows us to offer secure and sophisticated solutions for all procedures involving CADE:

• Antitrust risk analysis for structuring M&A transactions.
• Merger control of national and multijurisdictional transactions to be notified before CADE.
• Representation of companies and individuals in antitrust investigations involving cartels and abuse of dominance.
• Negotiation of leniency and settlement agreements within CADE.
• Representing companies in anti-competitive civil liability proceedings.
• Development of compliance programs and theorical and practical training for companies.
• Preparation of legal opinions, risk assessments and reviewing of corporate conducts related to all topics of the Brazilian Antitrust Law.