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About
Provided by Francisco Negrão
Practice Areas
Antitrust and International Trade
Career
Francisco Niclós Negrão is the co-leader of the Antitrust and International Trade practice areas of Trench Rossi Watanabe. He has 20 years of experience in handling complex cases in both areas, and is recognized for offering legal solutions to complex issues combined with sophisticated economic analysis, given his dual background.
Negrão's experience in the mentioned areas has given him a deep knowledge of the working of various markets, and allowing him to achieved positive results for his clients in antidumping investigations, subsidies / compensatory measures, public interest analysis procedures, tariff changes, and commercial disputes, among others.
Moreover, in the antitrust sphere, Negrão has a strong performance in complex merger control and investigations, both of vertical and horizontal practices, with a recognized track record in the preparation and implementation of antitrust compliance programs, having trained thousands of professionals over the past two decades.
Personal
Graduated from Centro Universitário de Brasília with a degree in Law, bachelor's and master's degree in Economics from Brandeis University, in the United States (with a period at Università Bocconi, in Italy). Certified Compliance and Ethics professional from the Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics - SCCE.
Chambers Review
Brazil: Contentious
Experienced partner Francisco Negrão is equipped to assist clients with a wide range of international trade mandates, including anti-dumping investigations, sunset reviews, trade barriers and public interest analysis.
Francisco Negrãois commended by market sources for his solid expertise in competition law, being further recognised for his knowledge about trade law.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Francisco is excellent to work with. He is transparent, knowledgeable, reliable and very friendly."
"Francisco is an excellent professional who is very competent and has a lot of knowledge of the field."
"Francisco is knowledgeable and has a lot of transit in the authorities' bodies. He is respected, very dedicated and diplomatic."
"He is excellent to work with, very transparent, well informed, trustworthy and friendly."
"His background is very solid, he is an economist and a lawyer; this makes a huge difference. He speaks to authorities as an equal."
"Francisco is excellent to work with. He is transparent, knowledgeable, reliable and very friendly."
"Francisco is an excellent professional who is very competent and has a lot of knowledge of the field."
"Francisco is knowledgeable and has a lot of transit in the authorities' bodies. He is respected, very dedicated and diplomatic."
"He is excellent to work with, very transparent, well informed, trustworthy and friendly."
"His background is very solid, he is an economist and a lawyer; this makes a huge difference. He speaks to authorities as an equal."