Chambers Review
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Competition/Antitrust - Brazil
What the Team is Known For
VMCA Advogados is a boutique firm with expertise in the whole spectrum of competition and antitrust activities. The team is regularly instructed by leading national companies from a wide range of industries to assist with third-party interventions in merger review proceedings, as well as abuse of dominance and cartel investigations before CADE. Clients also benefit from its advice on antitrust compliance and the negotiation of leniency agreements.
Strengths
VMCA's team is extremely well prepared, helpful and always available.
They are very fast and very agile. Their assistance helped us to make informed decisions.
VMCA is a well-respected firm in competition and antitrust.
VMCA's team learns quickly about the client's industry and about the case that will be presented to CADE. They elaborate innovative theses to achieve the goals requested by the client.
Work Highlights
VMCA assisted Raízen with a CADE probe that targeted the alleged harm to competition caused by a consortium formed by Raízen, Vibra and Ipiranga to participate in lease auctions for port areas intended for moving and storing fuel.
Notable practitioners
Partner Marcela Mattiuzzo advises clients on a wide range of competition mandates, being particularly active in investigations before CADE.
Marcela has interdisciplinary knowledge and is very available.
Marcela has strong technical knowledge and commercial awareness.
Marcela demonstrated relevant technical knowledge and important experience in practical cases. She has significant technical knowledge in competition matters.
Partner Ticiana Lima joins the ranking this year after receiving positive appraisals from peers and clients. She is a former CADE employee and has experience advising clients in mergers, cartel cases and investigations of anti-competitive conduct.
Ticiana has a lot of knowledge of how CADE acts and thinks, so she is able to anticipate any questioning that may arise in the process. She is excellent.
Ticiana has extensive experience in competition and antitrust matters.