Chambers Review
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Competition/Antitrust - Brazil
What the Team is Known For
A highly recognised competition department within a prime firm that has a solid reputation among major foreign clients, the Levy & Salomão Advogados' team earns praise for its practice on cross-border monopolistic conduct investigations arising in particular from cartel activities, including the negotiation of leniency agreements and defence before CADE. The team is also well placed to handle high-profile merger control proceedings, boasting particular expertise in the entertainment and technology sectors.
Strengths
Levy & Salomão's team is exemplary. They are dedicated to clients and very up to date. It is a strong law firm in litigation and competition consulting.
The competition team at Levy & Salomão knows very well the functioning and thinking of CADE. They have extensive technical knowledge and strategic vision of the best paths.
Levy & Salomão's team is excellent. They are up to date, fast and impressive. They are business-oriented, practical and well connected, and they have a strong sense of how CADE will react.
Work Highlights
Levy & Salomão is representing IBM in CADE’s review of the acquisition of Software AG's enterprise software technology businesses, webMethods and StreamSets.
Notable practitioners
Well-regarded partner Mariana Tavares de Araujo is frequently retained by high-profile clients to assist with complex matters before CADE, including merger control proceedings, cartel investigations and leniency agreements negotiations.
Mariana is an excellent lawyer.
Mariana is a very experienced lawyer in competition matters. She is very up to date, available and competent.
Mariana is up to date and fast. She is impressive.
Head of department Ana Paula Martinez is a strong practitioner who is acclaimed for her work on sophisticated competition mandates such as merger control proceedings and investigations, including relating to cartels.
Ana Paula is always very precise and technical.
Ana Paula is an excellent partner.
Alexandre Ditzel Faraco has a solid track record assisting clients with leniency agreements, anti-competitive behaviour-related mandates and merger reviews before CADE.
Up-and-coming partner, Marcos Malvar, is respected for his experience in negotiating leniency and settlement agreements with CADE.
Marcos is a lawyer who is always very available and up to date on business topics.
Marcos is impressive and has a good sense of how CADE will react.