Practice Areas

Competitive

The Competition Law team at MAZZUCCO & MELLO ADVOGADOS works together with the M&A team to investigate and analyze acts of concentration of corporate transactions and to represent clients before the Administrative Council for Economic Defense – CADE.

In addition, our Competition Law team also works on issues of a strictly competition nature that result in investigations and administrative proceedings instituted before CADE, as well as in litigation and leniency agreements with the aforementioned agency. Our team also works on the preparation and review of competition compliance programs and on conducting internal audits.

Our team offers the following services:

  • Conducting investigations and administrative processes at CADE and SEAE;
  • Representation in disputes of a competition nature;
  • Assistance in the presentation of national and international economic concentration operations that produce effects in Brazil;
  • Prior assessment and consultancy on business structuring that may have competitive effects in order to mitigate risks;
  • Defense of interests before CAMEX in dumping proceedings.

Experience

Experience

Team

Team

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Arbitration and Mediation, Compliance and Business Integrity, Competition, Consumer, Civil Litigation, Sports and Entertainment, Privacy and Data Protection
Associated
Compliance and Business Integrity, Competition, Consumer, Civil Litigation, Privacy and Data Protection

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Administrative litigation in competition matters, both for the presentation of structural operations (M&A) and for the defense in proceedings of alleged competitive conduct, before CADE.

  • Presentation of a structural case in the communications sector before CADE and defense in a conduct process in the electrical equipment sector for CEO and Director, negotiation of a conduct cessation term.
  • Administrative defense of the former CEO of a large construction company in the investigation process of alleged anticompetitive conduct (cartel in PETROBRAS bidding processes) with CADE.

Administrative litigation in investigation procedures into alleged dumping practices before SECEX of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.

  • Administrative litigation in investigation procedures into alleged dumping practices before the Foreign Trade Secretariat of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade – SECEX.

Consulting in the presentation of operations before the Brazilian Competition Defense System.

  • Advice to international manufacturers of telecommunications equipment, world leaders in the information technology market, in the submission to the Brazilian Competition Defense System of joint venture operations between the parties.
  • Advising a Brazilian telecommunications operator on the submission to the National Telecommunications Agency – ANATEL and the Brazilian Competition Defense System of an operation to acquire the entire share capital of a company that owns physical infrastructure for the provision of network infrastructure solutions, data communication services and corporate solutions.
  • Advising the Brazilian subsidiary of an international logistics, transportation and cargo storage company on the submission to the Brazilian Competition Defense System for the acquisition of all shares representing the capital of a storage company holding authorization to operate with the deferral of payment of ICMS for products originating from a specific region of the country.
  • Advising the Brazilian subsidiary of an international company that manufactures sexual wellness products in filing an opposition to a notification of a merger filed by a competitor. The opposition resulted in CADE imposing the sale of a certain product line that was the subject of the transaction.
  • Advising the Brazilian subsidiary of an international auto parts manufacturer in filing an opposition to a notification of a concentration act filed by a competitor.

 

Partner
Arbitration and Mediation, Compliance and Business Integrity, Competition, Consumer, Civil Litigation, Sports and Entertainment, Privacy and Data Protection
Associated
Compliance and Business Integrity, Competition, Consumer, Civil Litigation, Privacy and Data Protection