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Campos Mello adds antitrust partner in São Paulo

24 May 2012

First name: André Marques

Surname: Gilberto

Practice area: Competition

Firm/company (from): Private Practice

Firm/company (to): Campos Mello Advogados

City (from): São Paulo

City (to): São Paulo

Country (from): Brazil

Country (to): Brazil

Region: Americas




Brazilian firm Campos Mello Advogados has added a partner in its São Paulo office. The attorney is noted for his work in the field of antitrust and competition law.

André Marques Gilberto (pictured) joins Campos Mello's Arbitration and Litigation practice group, which contains the firm's antitrust team. Gilberto received his law degree and his LLM from São Paulo University and worked as an associate at several São Paulo firms before co-founding Marques Gilberto & Oliveira Felix Advogados, a firm built primarily around antitrust law.

Gilberto has represented both Brazilian and foreign companies before government competition authorities and other agencies focused on illegal practices and transaction filings. He has defended companies and individuals in cartel investigations on the local level in Brazil in addition to handling merger notifications submitted in the pharmaceutical, chemical, telecommunications, industrial gas, and energy industries.

Antitrust and competition considerations are in the spotlight in Brazil, as the Brazilian Competition Act takes effect on May 29. The new law revises several longstanding protocols, imposing a requirement that all merger control rules be pre-notified and a stipulation that mergers cannot close until clearance is obtained from the Brazilian Council for Economic Defence (CADE).

Prior to this law, Brazilian companies have had the option of filing for antitrust compliance either before or after the closing of a merger. Traditionally, almost all of them have chosen to file after a deal closes, so the new legislation represents a significant change in both antitrust and M&A procedure.

Gilberto joins a staff at Campos Mello that includes 19 other partners and over 60 associates. The firm maintains an office in Rio de Janeiro in addition to the one in São Paulo. The Litigation and Arbitration practice area at Campos Mello, besides covering antitrust and competition matters, also deals with regulatory issues, civil matters, business agreements, tax issues, land use agreements, and wills and estate law.
   
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