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Ticiana Lima

Ticiana Lima

Brazil 2026

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Ranked in 1 practice area

Competition/Antitrust

Brazil

3 years ranked

About

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Brazil: Contentious

Practice Areas

Antitrust

Career

Ticiana’s practice is focused on representing clients in cartel investigations and unilateral conducts, including the negotiation of agreements with the Brazilian antitrust authority (CADE), assisting them in large national and international mergers and acquisitions, and in the design and implementation of compliance programs. Ticiana also provides clients with preventive consultancy in competitive matters. Her clients include national and international companies from a wide-range of sectors such as healthcare, infrastructure, logistics, and beverages.

Prior to joining VMCA as a partner, Ticiana served as the head advisor of the Office of the President at CADE, when she actively participated in the analysis of dozens of complex merger cases, cartel and unilateral conducts investigations. During her tenure at CADE, she played a relevant role in the structuring of the new authority, especially in drafting and implementing some of the main regulations in place today, such as the resolution for merger filings in Brazil.

Her previous experience also includes serving as an international advisor to the Secretariat of Economic Law at the Ministry of Justice, working as a competition law and economic regulation lawyer at Lefosse/Linklaters and being a Bluebook Trainee at the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission.

Personal

PhD, Master of Laws and Bachelor of Laws from the University of São Paulo (USP). Ticiana holds an LL.M degree from Harvard University.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Brazil: Contentious

Competition/Antitrust - Brazil

Band 5
Individual Editorial

Ticiana Lima receives good appraisals from peers and clients. She is a former CADE employee and has experience advising clients in mergers, cartel cases and investigations of anticompetitive conduct.

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Strengths

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  • Ticiana Lima demonstrates impressive technical expertise and outstanding responsiveness. Her prompt action, combined with deep legal knowledge, inspires client confidence in moments that require clarity and swift decisions, all while maintaining excellence in service delivery.

    Competition/AntitrustChambers Brazil: Contentious

  • Ticiana Lima has an impressive command of technical matters and a high level of responsiveness. The promptness with which she acts, combined with her deep legal expertise, provides clients with confidence in situations that require clarity and swift decision‑making, all while maintaining excellence in delivery.

    Competition/AntitrustChambers Brazil: Contentious

  • I love working with Ticiana Lima. She is truly one of the professionals I trust most in the competition field. Her experience, availability and dedication to clients are real differentiators.

    Competition/AntitrustChambers Brazil: Contentious

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