Francisco Negrão
Global Guide 2024
Band 3 : International Trade/WTO
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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
Global
Co-head of department Francisco Negrão is equipped to assist clients with a wide range of international trade mandates. He is regularly retained by players from the paper, food and rubber industries to advise on anti-dumping investigations, sunset reviews, trade barriers and public interest analysis. Negrão is also sought after to issue legal opinions and act on free trade agreements, reduction of imports and tariff classification.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Very good technically. He has a great network within international trade and knows a lot about bureaucracies. Very available as well."
"He also graduated in economics and goes beyond the law sphere. He is excellent and always dives into cases. A very diplomatic and pleasant person."
"Francisco Negrão is one of the highest-level professionals I have ever met in my career as a corporate lawyer."
"Very good technically. He has a great network within international trade and knows a lot about bureaucracies. Very available as well."
"He also graduated in economics and goes beyond the law sphere. He is excellent and always dives into cases. A very diplomatic and pleasant person."
"Francisco Negrão is one of the highest-level professionals I have ever met in my career as a corporate lawyer."