PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Vinicius is the founding partner of VMCA. His practice is mainly focused on competition and regulatory matters. He has substantial experience representing clients before the Brazilian antitrust authority in complex merger and acquisitions, negotiations for settlements and leniency agreements, and also in administrative proceedings, whether they are focused on unilateral or collusive conduct. Vinicius also advises clients in the stablishing, monitoring, and reviewing of compliance programs, due diligences, and business practices in general. His experience also includes representing companies in the interface with Brazilian regulatory agencies and authorities from various sectors. His clients include national and international companies from a wide-range of sectors, such as telecommunications, fuel, infrastructure, and technology.

Vinicius served in Brazil’s federal government from 2005 to 2016. As President of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), he not only took part in decisions and investigations of several cases in a wide variety of economic sectors, but he was also responsible for negotiating the approval of the new antitrust law in the Brazilian Congress and, immediately afterwards, for overseeing its implementation. 

This involved the drafting of legislation and guidelines, including the new leniency and settlement agreement policy, the standards for filling and analysis of mergers, and the compliance and gun jumping guidelines, among other components. The advances that stemmed from the changes in the Brazilian Antitrust Policy led CADE to be recognized three times as “Agency of the Year – Americas” by the British publication Global Competition Review (GCR), and positioned the authority among the eight top competition defense agencies in the world. 

Within the Brazilian Competition Defense System (SBDC, in the Portuguese acronym), Vinicius also served as Secretary of Economic Law and Commissioner at CADE. As Secretary, in addition to his work on antitrust policy, he actively took part in the building of the National Consumer Defense System, oversaw recalls and carried out investigations of consumer law violations.

Vinicius also served as Chief of Staff of the Secretariat of Human Rights, where he took part in the drafting of several public policies, including the policy for education in human rights and policies regarding minority rights. During that time, he articulated the human rights agenda within government and civil society (both private companies and NGOs).

Previously, Vinicius served as legislative advisor in the Brazilian Senate and in the House of Representatives of the State of São Paulo, where he acquired vast experience in the drafting, analysis, and negotiation of legislative proposals.

His accomplishments at the national and international level were recognized in 2013, when Vinicius was chosen as one of the 100 personalities of the year by Época magazine, and was appointed the Vice-Chair of the International Competition Network (ICN), entity that assembles over 130 competition authorities.

In all the positions he has occupied, Vinicius has pursued an intense advocacy agenda, regarding both economic regulation and competition, for the introduction of impact assessment methodologies in normative debates. He has participated in several discussions within the government regarding Brazil’s Internet Law (Marco Civil da Internet), anticorruption legislation, especially Brazil’s current Anticorruption Law, and policies on data protection regulation.

Vinicius serves as an arbitrator of the Chamber of Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration of the Center of Industries of São Paulo (Ciesp) and the Federation of Industries of São Paulo (Fiesp) and is also a member of the Special Commission of Economic Law of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB). He has been a featured speaker at several international forums, including the Competition Committee at the OECD, the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy of the UNCTAD, and events of the American Bar Association (ABA), the ICN, Fordham University, Georgetown University and the New York State Bar Association, among others.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

PhD in Commercial Law from the University of São Paulo (USP) and in Public Comparative Law from the University Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). In 2016, he was a Lemann Fellow and a Yale Greenberg World Fellow, a program focused on leadership building at Yale University. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from USP and successfully completed the program for specialists in Public Policies and Governmental Management from the National School of Public Administration (ENAP, in the Portuguese acronym). Vinicius took part in several training courses at the same school, including many on negotiating with the public sector.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Professor of Commercial Law at the University of São Paulo (USP). Vinicius was a Visiting Professor at the University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, and formerly a professor at the School of Law of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV). Former editor in chief of the Journal of Competition Defense. 

Vinicius also taught in several post-graduate courses organized by FGV, the National Telecommunications Foundation, the Court of Auditors, the School of the Public Attorneys’ Office and the University of Brasília (UnB, in partnership with the National Agency of Electrical Energy, Aneel). He was also a researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap), taking part of the Group on Law and Democracy, in the project on State Reform and Democracy.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English, and French

PUBLICATIONS

• [Competition and Tax] (Cedes, 2019), co-author.
• [Compliance: Competition and Fight Against Corruption] (Trevisan Editora, 2017), co-author.
• [Competition Defense: Studies and Votes] (Editora Singular, 2015), co-author and organizer.
• International Cooperation and Competition Enforcement: Brazilian and European Experiences from the Enforcers’ Perspective (Kluwer Law International, 2014), co-author.
• [Basic Sanitation Law] (Quartier Latin, 2010).

RECOGNITIONS

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

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. 

Throughout her years as a public official, Ticiana interacted intensely with several government and private sectors, foreign authorities and other agents. As a corporate lawyer, her previous experience includes designing and implementing compliance programs and working on several international mergers. She is the author and co-author of several papers and book chapters on competition law and economic regulation.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

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

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Ticiana was a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown Law School and has organized and participated as a speaker in several conferences and seminars in Brazil and abroad.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French

PUBLICATIONS

• [CADE and Corporate Restructurings] (Singular, 2006).
• [Implementation of the New Brazilian Competition Policy] (Defesa da Concorrência: estudos e votos. Singular, 2015, p. 45-68), co-author.
• Transactions at the fringe: a discussion about the scope of merger control review in Brazil (International Cooperation and Competition Enforcement. KluweLaw International, 2014, p. 121-136).
• Consumer policy as social policy: what does PLANDEC tell us so far? (Paper selected for The Conference on Global Law and Development – CGLAD Conference 2013).
• [The New Brazilian Competition Defense System and the Implementarion of the Brazilian Competition Policy in the Analisys of Anti-competitive Practices] (A Nova Lei do CADE. Migalhas, 2012, p. 238-246), co-author.

RECOGNITIONS

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Marcela practices in the areas of antitrust and data protection. In the antitrust practice her work involves negotiation of agreements and representation of clients before the Brazilian antitrust authority (CADE) in administrative proceedings and in merger and acquisitions. She also advises clients in risk assessing distribution agreements, analyzing governance and compliance structures, evaluating the competitive risks of commercial practices, among others. Marcela’s clients are from a variety of sectors, such as infrastructure, technology, and agribusiness. 

She is also the head of the firm’s data protection area. Her work focuses on adapting corporate policies to the Brazilian and international data legislation, and also representing clients before judicial and administrative authorities. Marcela has participated in several debates regarding the structuring of the new Brazilian data protection public policy, especially after the approval of the country’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD) in 2018. Currently, she serves as coordinator to Ibrac’s Digital Markets Committee LGPD Task Force and is a member of the Steering Committee of the CIPL/IDP project “LGPD implementation and harmonization with international data protection regimes”.

Former advisor and chief of staff for the Office of the President at CADE, Marcela assisted in the handling of cases at the Administrative Tribunal, in the organization and structuring of interventions of authorities at national and international events, and coordinating antitrust advocacy actions, with emphasis on the development of CADE’s Compliance Guidelines and the participation in the editorial coordination for the Journal of Competition Defense.

On behalf of CADE, she also served as Commissioner at the Federal Council for the Fund for the Defense of Collective Rights and representative at the National Strategy for the Fight Against Corruption and Money-Laundering.

Marcela has been authoring several articles regarding competition, regulation, and digital issues, and is also a frequent speaker at seminars in Brazil and abroad, such as the “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century” seminar, organized by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Ph.D. candidate in Commercial law, M.A. in Public law, with a dissertation focused on debates about algorithms, discrimination and public policies, and Bachelor of Laws from the University of São Paulo (USP). She did an academic exchange program at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), with studies focused on European economic law, and was a visiting researcher at Yale Law School. She attended the course at the Internet Governance School of CGI.br and the CopyrightX course, offered in partnership by Harvard University and ITS Rio.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Coordinator of the Competition Law and Digital Economy Center at USP, Marcela was a member of the Constitution, Politics and Institutions group of the same institution. She was a professor and coordinator of the first edition of the course “Data Protection”, organized by the Center for Studies in Economic and Social Law (Cedes) and a guest professor in several courses in the area, such as those of the Insper Law School and Data Privacy Brazil. She was also a fellow at the “virtual research clinic” at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).

Marcela is also the director of the Project for Promotion of Academic Dedication (PPDA), which offers monthly financial aid as well as orientation, so that low-income students can develop their full potential during their graduation at USP, becoming the best professionals they can be.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English, Spanish, and German

PUBLICATIONS

• “Algorithms and Big Data: Considerations on Algorithmic Governance and its Consequences for Antitrust Analysis” (Revista de Economia Contemporânea — Journal of Contemporary Economics, v. 23, n. 2, mai/ago 2019).
• The Brazilian Data Protection Policy and its Impacts for Competition Enforcement (Competition Policy International “, v. 2, p. 19-23, 2019), co-author.
• Online Advertising Platforms and Personal Data Retail: Consequences for Antitrust Law (Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle , v. 7, p. 1, 2015).
• Antitrust Compliance Programs: The Brazilian Experience (Competition Law and Policy in Latin America: Recent Developments, Wolter Kluwers, 2017, v. ?, p. 59-71).
• Business Models and Big Data: How Google Uses Your Personal Information (Privacidade em Perspectivas. Lumen Juris, 2018, v. 1, p. 1-256). 

RECOGNITIONS

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Aline is a partner at VMCA and head of the firm’s third sector and impact investment practice. She is focused on the formulation of legal solutions for entities in the third sector and for companies focused on impact businesses, including legal assistance for their development, drafting and implementing regulatory strategies and defending their interests with administrative and judicial bodies. She has experience with donation taxation, tax incentives, endowments and the Regulatory Framework for Civil Society Organizations (MROSC).

Before joining VMCA, Aline coordinated the advocacy area of ​​the Group of Institutions, Foundations and Enterprises (GIFE) where she led actions to promote an enabling environment for civil society organizations. Aline also has experience in public administration, both executive and legislative. She was Head of Technical Advisory at the Office of the Government Secretariat of São Paulo City Hall and Senior Lawyer at the São Paulo Film and Audiovisual Company – SPCINE, in addition to being a member of the Board of Directors of São Paulo Urbanismo (SP-Urbanismo). She was also parliamentary advisor at the São Paulo City Council, where she worked on the formulation of the São Paulo Strategic Master Plan, Law nº 16.050/2014.

In addition to her professional work, Aline has also taught courses undergraduate and graduate focused on administrative law, economic law and tax law. She has been an invited speaker for many different forums and conferences focused on MROSC, tax donations and endowments and she has been the author and co-author for several publications.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Graduated with Bachelor of Law and Masters of Law from the University of São Paulo (USP).

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Taught undergraduate and graduate courses on administrative law, economic law and tax law at Padre Anchieta University Center and at São Judas Tadeu University.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English and Spanish

PUBLICATIONS

• Promotion Donations: tax improvement to boost social mobilization (Valor Econômico, 12/05/2020), co-author
• Highlights: economic sustainability of civil society organizations (GIFE, FGV Direito SP, 2020), organizer
• The Economic Sustainability Agenda of Civil Society Organizations at the Brazilian Supreme Court (GIFE, FGV Direito SP, 2020), organizer
• Regulatory Framework of Civil Society Organizations: progress and challenges (GIFE, FGV Direito SP, 2020), organizer
• Strengthening Civil Society: reducing tax barriers for donations (GIFE, FGV Direito SP, 2019), organizer
• Endowments and Civil Society Organizations (GIFE, FGV Direito SP, 2019)
• Regulatory Incentives for Individual Philanthropy in Brazil (GIFE, FGV Direito SP, FGV Direito RIO, 2019), organizer
• Coalition for Philanthropic Endowments: a partner’s perspective (Philanthropic endowments: sustainability for causes and organizations IDIS, 2019, p. 189-200), co-author
• Regulatory Challenges and Fostering Donations in Brazil (Consensus GIFE 2016. GIFE, 2017, p. 32-37), co-author
• Disputes over the Constitutional Interpretation of the Master Plan (Revista Direito e Práxis, v. 7, p. 531-565), co-author
• Capital Market and Real Estate Market: the growing importance of real mortgage-backed securities (Anais XV Encontro da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Planejamento Urbano e Regional), co-author

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Flávio Prol coordinated educational projects at Lemann Foundation, working with projects related to public management of education, procurement of edtechs and educational technology, the use of technology in education and the sustainability of educational projects (2018-2021).

He was associate lawyer at VMCA (2017-2018), formulating several legal opinions for businesses and associations about antitrust aspects, represented clients before the Brazilian antitrust authority in the negotiation of agreements and also acted as legal consultant in strategic projects for non-governmental organization.

Flávio also served as Undersecretary of Planning, Budget and Management at the Ministry of Justice (2015-2016), where he was responsible for managing projects, proceedings, contracts and the budget of the Ministry. Previously, he served as Coordinator General of Planning at the Ministry of Justice (2014-2015) and practiced law (2011-2013). He played an active role in restructuring proceedings and administrative contracts in the Ministry. He also held a leading position on the team that organized strategic planning in the Ministry of Justice for the period between 2015 and 2019.

During his years as a public official, Flávio participated in the elaboration and implementation of rules, policies and regulations, and interacted intensely with several sectors of the government and private enterprises, regulatory agencies, prosecutors, foreign authorities and other agents. As a lawyer, he handled dozens of cases in administrative law.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Flávio holds a PhD, a Master and a Bachelor degrees in law at the University of São Paulo. He was a Fox Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University (2013-2014) and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School (2016-2017).

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (since 2010). Professor at Faculdade Metropolitana Unidas (FMU), Faculdade Damásio and Escola Paulista de Direito (EPD). Flávio has organized and participated as a speaker in several conferences and seminars, in Brazil and abroad. Flávio has published several articles on regulation and administrative law.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English and Spanish

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Anna was formerly part of the Corporate and M&A practice at Ulhôa Canto Rezende e Guerra, and of the Antitrust Practice at Barbosa, Müssnich e Aragão – BMA. She was also a researcher at the Center of Law, Economics and Governance at FGV São Paulo Law School. Today, she is an associate at VMCA.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Bachelor of Laws at the University of São Paulo. She was part of the Yale Law School Latin America Linkages Program, in 2016. Her work has been recognized at the IBRAC-TIM award for papers on Competition Defense in 2017 and 2016. In 2018, she was part ofthe Summer Training in German and European Law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

She was also a researcher at the Center of Law, Economics and Governance at FGV São Paulo Law School (2015-2016) and was part of the research team of the Study Group on the Relations between State and Private Companies. In 2014 she was Vice-President of Sanfran Jr., a student-run organization at USP Law School. She was part of several research groups at USP, including: Law and Poverty (2016), Critical Studies in Commercial Law (2016), Competition and Society (2017). She was editor at the Student Law Review at USP Law School (2017) and was a volunteer at the legal clinic DJ XI de Agosto (2015-2017). She was a teaching assistant in the classes of Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, Corporations, Legal Logic and Methodology, Regulation, Competition and the Market, and Foundations of Corporate Law, with a scholarship from the University of Sao Paulo. She was research assistant to Professors Amanda Athayde (UnB) and Bruno Salama (FGV-SP). She is the author of papers on Competition Law and Capital Markets.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and German

PUBLICAÇÕES

 

• Poder de Portfólio em Concentrações: Preocupações e Desdobramentos (Revista do Ibrac, 2018).
• Cooperação e Concentração: O empreendimento comum e a nova disciplina dos contratos associativos (Revista de Defesa da Concorrência, 2018)
• How Does Brazil Review Multi-Jurisdictional Merger Cases? An Empirical Study from the Competition Authority’s Perspective (Brazilian Antitrust Law – Law N.º 12,529/11: 5 years, Ibrac, 2017 com Bruno B. Becker).
• Efeitos Conglomerados em Concentrações Econômicas (Mulheres no Antitruste, Vol. 1, Singular, 2018).

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Frederico formerly worked as an intern at ETAD, an Office specialized on Insurance Law and Civil Responsibility (2013-2014)and as an independent lawyer focusing on contract law, civil responsibility, consumer law and administrative improbity (2015-2016). He has been an associate of VMCA since 2017.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Master of Laws Candidate at the University of São Paulo (USP), from where he also holds a Bachelor degree in Law. In 2011, he concluded the Public Training School Program of the Brazilian Society of Public Law (SBDP), where he Law? Administration? participated in the Public Law Course 2017 – organized in partnership with the School of Law at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo (FGV-SP). In 2017, he took part in the Education Improvement Teaching Internship on the Theory of the Brazilian State at USP.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Frederico is currently a member of the Public Research Group at the School of Law at FGV-SP, in partnership with the SBDP. He was assistant professor at USP (2015-2017) for Professor Maria Paula Dallari’s courses on General Theory of State (I and II) and Theory of Brazilian State (I and II). In 2017, he was Tutor of the Public Training School Program of the SBDP in partnership with the School of Law at FGV-SP and participated on the board that evaluated students research papers. At the Fifth Seminary of Public Law organized by São Paulo State University (UNESP) in 2017, he presented an article on the urban question which was approved for publication in a volume of the seminary proceedings. He is author of a monograph on the Brazilian Supreme Court’s treatment of tax immunity that was published by SBDP (2011) and of articles on economic regulation.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese and English

PUBLICAÇÕES

• A pertinência da abordagem direito e políticas públicas ao estudo da política urbana no Brasil: o exemplo da pesquisa sobre as vias urbanas e sua função social (Revista de Estudos Institucionais, V. 5, n. 3, 2019, pp. 1044-1064).

 

• What are the criteria for the characterization of sham litigation? (IBRAC, 2019, In Conducts Enforcement in Brazil), coautor.

 

• O STF e a fixação de exigências para fruição de imunidade tributária: uma análise dos casos relacionados ao art. 195, § 7º, da Constituição Federal (Monografia Sociedade Brasileira de Direito Público, 2011).

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Paula interned at Opice Blum Bruno Abrusio Vainzof Advogados Associados, a law firm specialized in digital law where she worked on e-commerce, privacy and data protection, media and intellectual property before joining VMCA as an intern in 2017 and is currently an associate.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

PhD Candidate at the University of São Paulo, from where she holds her Bachelor degrees in law. During her graduation, Paula held a scholarship at PET – Sociology of Law related to the Ministry of Education’s Department of Higher Education (SESU) in conjunction with the Department of Philosophy and General Theory of Law of the University of São Paulo.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Paula took part in the activities of the Research Nucleus on Studies in Competition and Society at USP (NECSO), the Law, Internet and Society Research Group from University of São Paulo (NDIS), the Interinstitutional Research Group on Philosophy and Theory of Law (Gifited) and was a volunteer at the legal clinic DJ XI de Agosto. She served as teacher assistant for courses on Sociology of Law, Regulation, Competition and Market, Intellectual Property and Access to Knowledge and Logic and Legal Methodology. As a member of PET, her research focused on sociology of law.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English and French

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Arthur is part of the Antitrust Practice at VMCA, focusing on the assessment of competitive risks of mergers and acquisitions and their submission before the Brazilian Competition Authority (Administrative Council for Economic Defense – Cade). He also has experience in the assessment, structuring and review of the competitive aspects of commercial and compliance policies, besides the representation of companies in Cade’s investigation for prosecution of anticompetitive practices.

He was formerly part of the Antitrust Practice at Caminati Bueno Advogados, of the Antitrust, the International Trade and Customs, and the Arbitration Practices at Pinheiro Neto Advogados, and Tax Law Practice at Boccuzzi Advogados Associados.

He was also a researcher in Compliance and Corporate Governance at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas São Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP).

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Master of Laws Candidate and Bachelor of Laws at the University of São Paulo Law School (USP Law School).

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

His work was recognized at the at the IBRAC-TIM award for papers on Competition Defense in 2019.

At USP Law School, he was part of the Finnancial and Capital Markets research group, composed the editorial board at the Student Law Review e and was the ombudsman at the student union. He was a teaching assistant in the courses of Corporate Law, Commercial Contracts, Corporations, Regulation and Competition Policy, and Budgeting, with a scholarship from USP Law School. He was teaching assistant to Professors Carlos Portugal Gouvêa (USP Law School) and José Maurício Conti (USP Law School). Also, he has participated in an undergraduate research advised by Professor Luís Fernando Massonetto (USP Law School, 2018).

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English, French and Spanish

PUBLICATIONS

Remédios antitruste e a prática do Cade na Lei nº 12.529/2011 (Direito societário e outros temas de direito empresarial aplicado, Instituto de Direito Societário Aplicado (IDSA)/Quartier Latin, 2021, com Eduardo Caminati e Guilherme Misale).

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Prior to joining VMCA, Gabriel worked as a research assistant at Getulio Vargas’ Foundation (FGV) Faculty of Law, at the Network of Empirical Legal Studies and in projects related to the Advanced Studies Institute of the University of Sao Paulo (USP).

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Gabriel holds a master degree in Law and Development by the Getulio Vargas’ Foundation, cum laude. He also holds a bachelor of laws by the University of Sao Paulo. He was part of the Yale Law School Latin America Linkages Program in 2017 and attended the Bergen Summer Research School in 2020.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Currently Gabriel is a member of the Innovation and Competitiveness Observatory of the University of Sao Paulo. During his bachelor, Gabriel was a teacher assistant in the Logic and Legal Methodology course.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese and English

PUBLICATIONS

• Encomendar Inovação em Software (Revista de Estudos Empíricos em Direito, 2021), co-author.
• Por que utilizar encomendas tecnológicas? Oportunidades em relação a outros instrumentos para a contratação de inovações (Cadernos de Direito e Inovação, 2019), co-author.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Isabella practices in the data protection area, adapting corporate policies to the Brazilian and international data legislation. She was a consulting lawyer at Azevedo Sette Advogados and Pinheiro Neto Advogados in the Technology area, where she developed works and projects related to privacy and personal data protection.

She has experience with telecommunications regulatory issues, advising the structuring of new businesses through consulting and drafting contracts on the Brazilian telecommunications regulation. She also acted in administrative proceedings before the National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL).

Currently, she is the coordinator of the Cybersecurity subcommittee and a member of the Regulatory Agenda subcommittee of the Privacy and Personal Data Protection Committee of OAB/SP. She also participates in Ibrac’s Digital Markets Committee.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Isabella holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP). She took the Digital Applied Law extension course, offered by Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). She also took the Digital Law Summer Course, organized by the University of Geneva, in collaboration with the Institute for Technology and Society in Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio), Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, Center for Economic Law and Society (CRIDES), Geneva Internet Platform, and University of Zurich. She is currently pursuing post-graduate studies in Digital Law offered by the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and ITS Rio.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

She participated in the activities of the Largo São Francisco Center for International Studies (NEI), in the Brazilian Foreign Policy Observatory; the Law, Internet and Society Center of the Law School (NDIS), supervised by Professor Virgílio Afonso da Silva; and the Center for Studies in Technology and Society (NETS), all at USP. Her undergraduate thesis was supervised by Prof. Ana Elisa Liberatore Silva Bechara, on the theme “The other side of the coin: an analysis of the national and supranational regulation of cybercrimes related to the use of bitcoins”, which was nominated for the Young Lawyer award and recommended for publication.

She is now a volunteer at Juventude Privada, a social project which aims to raise awareness among children, teenagers, parents, and educators about privacy and personal data protection.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English, Spanish and French

PUBLICATIONS

• OECD: a barred window to Brazil and the impacts of LGPD on breaking barriers (Law and New Technologies Journal, Thomson Reuters and Future Law, 2020), co-author.

• The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review: Brazil (The Law Reviews, Edition 7, p. 295-314, 2020), co-author.

• ANATEL and Linear Communication Channels through the Internet (Revista dos Tribunais magazine, printed version, 2020), co-author.

• Recent Developments in the Implementation of 5G Technology and its Benefits (The Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, Edition 42, 2020), co-author.

• Brazilian Context Post-Schrems I and II: Influences of Geographical Limitations on the Transnational Flow of Personal Data and Practical Aspects (ITS Rio, post-graduation final paper selected for publication).

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Jéssica served as Technical Assistant and Substitute-Coordinator of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (“Cade”), where she investigated anticompetitive practices involving bid-rigging cartels. Between 2016 e 2017, she served as an intern of the Antitrust and International Trade practice group at Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados, representing clients in administrative proceedings and mergers. In 2018, she was na intern at the Office of Councilor Polyanna Vilanova at Cade’s Administrative Tribunal. Jéssica is now an associate at VMCA.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Jessica holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Brasília (UnB). Part of her undergraduate studies were completed at the Università degli Studi Roma Ter (Italy), where she studied for a semester in 2016.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

In 2018, Jéssica took part in the activities of the Study Group on Constitution, Corporation and Market from University of Brasília (GECEM/UnB), coordinated by Professor Ana de Oliveira Frazão. In 2019, she was a temporary member of the Study Group on Economic and Competition Law (GPEC) from Instituto Brasiliense de Direito Público (IDP), coordinated by Professor Amanda Athayde and by Professor Eric Hadmann Jasper.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English, French and Italian.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Julia works in the antitrust practice at VMCA, representing clients before the Brazilian Competition Authority, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade), in administrative proceedings and concentration acts, as well as advising clients on activities that may raise antitrust concerns under Brazilian Competition Act.

Julia served as an intern of the Attorney General’s Office associated with Cade, she was part of the 37ª Edition of the Exchange Program organized by Cade in 2017 and was formerly part of the antitrust practice at Pinheiro Neto Advogados. Julia is a member of the group Women in Antitrust in Brazil.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Julia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Brasília (UnB) and took part of her undergraduation at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, in Italy. She was also a researcher at the Scientific Initiation Program, associated with the UnB.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Julia takes part in the activities of the UnB’s study group on Constitution, Corporation and Market, coordinated by Professor Ana de Oliveira Frazão, and in the activities of the study group on Economic Liberalism at Ives Gandra Institute, coordinated by Professor Amanda Flávio.  She was a teaching assistant at the University of Brasília in the classes of Contract Law, Models and Paradigms of Legal Experience and Commercial Law II.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English and Italian

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Laura acts in the Third Sector and Impact Businesses area, advising clients on the constitution of legal entities, contract management, implementation of strategies in regulatory themes, transparency and other matters pertinent to the functioning of civil organizations and social enterprises. She is experienced in the fields of Public and Regulatory Law, Inovation Law and Data Protection.

She was an intern on the Legal Advisor’s office in Law and Inovation at the Financer of Studies and Projects (FINEP), aswell as in the São Paulo City Hall, where she acted as a parlamentary advisor, specializing in the redactment and processing of bills.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

She has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Sao Paulo (USP). Course Conclusion Thesis presented to the department of State Law: “Public Contracts and Inovation: a Study on the Microsoft/TJSP case”, supervised by Professor Floriano de Azevedo Marques Neto.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

She was the president of XI de Agosto students union in 2019, after acting as the treasurer for the same entity in 2017. She was also a students representative at the university congress. Laura took part in the Competition Law and Digital Finance Nucleus, organized by the Consumer Defence Institute (Idec), under supervision of Professor Vinicius Marques de Carvalho.

She was a student in the courses “Dialogs on Public Governance”, supervised by Professor Marcos Augusto Perez, and “Brazilian State Theory”, supervised by Professor Maria Paula Dallari Bucci. Also took part on the course “Law and Development” offered by the Public Leadership Centre under supervision of Professor Carlos Ari Sundfeld, aswell as the course “Legal Aspects of Innovation”, ministered by the Superior Advocacy School.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English and Spanish

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Levi practices in the areas of Economic Law, with a focus on competition and regulation, in addition to experience in Constitutional and Civil Law. In the antitrust and administrative practices, he represented national and foreign clients towards regulatory competition authorities in notifications of economic concentration acts; challenge of operations; investigating anti competition practices (cartels, abuse of dominant position and so on), and infringement/regulatory authorizations in general. His work also involved legal advice, risk evaluation and internal investigations (compliance) in competitive and regulatory matters involving contracts and M&A.

He also has experience with government affairs, legislative process and constitutional litigation, acting before the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and the National Congress on issues of social, institutional and environmental relevance.

Former advisor to the Deputy Chief of Parliamentary Affairs of Brazil’s Presidency between 2015 and 2016, a period in which he assisted the Federal Executive Branch in political articulation alongside the National Congress, especially on matters relating to legal and economic subjects.

He was legal and legislative advisor in the Federal Senate until 2021, assessing legislative matters and inspection and control initiatives in other bodies, such as the Public Ministry and the Courts of Auditors.

Levi was a member of the Competition Defense and Business Law Committees of the Brazilian Bar Association, Federal District Section (2016-2018).

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Master in Law, State and Constitution from the Postgraduate Program in Law of the University of Brasília (UnB). LL.M in Real Estate Law (2016) and in Administrative Law (2018) from the Brazilian Institute of Teaching, Development and Research – IDP. Holds an undergraduate degree in Law from UnB (2015).

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Member of the Constitution, Enterprise and Market Research Group, coordinated by Prof. PhD. Ana Frazão, a group part of the Sectorial and Regulatory Law Sector of the Faculty of Law at UnB. Collaborated with academic publications related to Economic and Competition Law at the University of Brasília and IDP. He participated on the board that evaluated students’ research papers. He has additional training in Federal Legislative Procedure (IFB) and Parliamentary Law (IDP), Intellectual Property (IDP), legal aspects of Blockchain (ITS) and updates in Civil Procedural Law (Brazilian Bar Association).

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese and English

PUBLICAÇÕES

• Killer acquisitions: Teoria das aquisições eliminatórias e proteção da inovação nos mercados digitais sob a ótica da defesa da concorrência·
• Mendonça, Nayara. Veríssimo, Levi. A Competência do Poder Judiciário na análise de demandas concorrenciais autônomas (Ações standalone). In: DRAGO, Bruno, PEIXOTO, Bruno. A livre Concorrência e os Tribunais Brasileiros. São Paulo: Ed. Singular, 2018.
• Análise Da Efetividade Da Arbitragem Como Meio De Monitoramento De Remédios Antitruste Na Jurisprudência Do Cade. In: REVISTA DO IBRAC Volume 23 – Número 2 – 2017.
• Regulação Econômica de Fintechs de Crédito. Revista da Procuradoria-Geral do Banco Central, 2019.
• Regulação Econômica e Direito Desportiva: Organização, Concorrência e Perspectivas Regulatórias no Mercado Esportivo Brasileiro. Universidade de Brasília
• Direito Da Concorrência Nas Plataformas Digitais: Inovações Das Novas Tecnologias Na Seara Antitruste: anais do VI Fórum Jurídico de Lisboa. 2018.
• Recusa de contratar por motivação ambiental e racionalidade econômica: o papel do Direito Antitruste na defesa do meio ambiente. REVISTA DO IBRAC, v. 25, p. 340-356, 2020.
• Restrições verticais na cadeia de comercialização de etanol combustível: análise do impacto concorrencial do poder normativo e regulador no setor varejista. Revista de Defesa da Concorrência, v. 6, p. 193-213, 2018.
• Repercussões Concorrenciais das Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs). In: REVISTA DO IBRAC Volume 25 – Número 2 – 2018.
• APOLINÁRIO, J. P. VERÍSSIMO, L. Blockchain e pregões eletrônicos: análise legal do uso de cadeias distribuídas para coibir fraudes à concorrência. In: R. V. de C. Fernandes; A. G. P. de Carvalho. (Org.). Tecnologia Jurídica & Direito Digital. 1ed. Belo Horizonte: Fórum, 2018, v. , p. 231-238.
• CONTARATO, F. VERÍSSIMO, L. A figura do devedor contumaz como elemento de desequilíbrio concorrencial. Jota, Virtual, 20 set. 2021.
• CONTARATO, F. VERÍSSIMO, L. A indevida limitação da ação popular como instrumento de fiscalização e controle. Jota, 19 set. 2019.
• CARVALHO, A. M. C. ; VERÍSSIMO, L. B. O. . O spam eleitoral na Espanha e a proteção de dados: exemplo para o Brasil?. Portal Jota, 06 dez. 2018.
• O conceito de controvérsia judicial relevante como requisito para propositura de ação direta de constitucionalidade na jurisprudência do Supremo Tribunal Federal. Revista Jurídica Seccional da OAB do Distrito Federal, Brasilia, p. 90 – 93, 02 jul. 2018
• Luiza Soares Sabioni Martins ; VERÍSSIMO, L. B. O. . Inclusion rider: repercussões jurídicas da cláusula de inclusão no Direito Brasileiro. Portal Jota, 12 mar. 2018.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Daniel practices in the Competition and Antitrust area, assisting clients with administrative defense before the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), economic concentration acts, conduct investigations and anticompetitive practices and assistance in settlement negotiations with CADE.

Before joining VMCA, he worked professionally at the International Cooperation Committee at FEA-USP (2017) and then had a spot in the Finance area at Unilever, especially in the Financial Planning and Credit Analysis functions (2019).

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

He is a law student at the University of São Paulo (USP), with windup scheduled for 2025. Graduated in International Relations also from USP (2021), Daniel previously attended a technical course in Electronics at the Federal Institute of São Paulo (2015).

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Daniel has experience abroad and studied at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) for one semester within USP’s academic exchange program (2020).

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese and English

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Iasmine works in the areas of data protection and competition. She was a researcher at the Data Privacy Brasil Research Association, where she studied different topics related to personal data protection, such as open banking, antitrust, children’s rights, security incidents, information security, among others. She was also an intern in the area of ​​Tax Law at Sacha Calmon, Mizabel Derzi – Consultores e Advogados, focusing on indirect taxes, litigation and consulting.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

She is an undergraduate law student from the University of São Paulo (USP), with completion scheduled for 2021. She received a scholarship from the Tutorial Program of Legal Sociology Education (PET-SJ), linked to the Higher Education Secretariat (Sesu) of the Ministry of Education in partnership with the Department of Philosophy and General Theory of Law from USP. She took the courses “Privacy and Data Protection: Theory and Practice”, “Privacy by Design” and “Contracts and Data Protection” offered by Data Privacy Brasil.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Iasmine has published the academic article “The Data and the Virus: legal tensions around the adoption of technologies to combat COVID-19”, by the Fundamental Rights & Justice Review, from PUC-RS, and a chapter in the book “LGPD na Saúde”, organized by Analluza Dallari and Gustavo Monaco. She acted as a monitor in the class of Legal Sociology, offered by Professor Eduardo Faria at the University of São Paulo, as a monitor in two modules of the Group for the Study of Law and Regulation of Capitalism (GEDIRC) offered by Professor Luís Fernando Massonetto at USP Law School and at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of USP. Iasmine was also a professor in the open course “Contact Tracing and COVID-19”, offered by Data Privacy Brasil, a speaker at the XXXIII Week of Law at the University of Fortaleza, with the theme “Privacy, freedom and democracy: the flow of data and its impact in electoral processes”. Besides, she completed her Thesis under the tutelage of Prof. Diogo Rosenthal Coutinho on the theme “Surveillance and pandemic: the false trade-off between the personal data protection and the fight against the Public Health crisis in tracking technologies”. As a PET-SJ fellow, she researched and conducted training in different areas, including economic law, innovation, programming, among others.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English and Spanish

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

José Bento acts in the competitive area, in cases involving economic concentration, investigation of anticompetitive conducts, negotiation of agreements with the Economic Defence Managing Council (Cade). Before joining VMCA, he acted as History teacher and held a research scholarship in History.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

José Bento is an undergraduate law student at the University of São Paulo (USP), with conclusion estimated to 2024. He also has a bachelor’s degree in History (2016) and a Master’s degree in Social History (2021) from the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences at USP.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

He was an administrative intern at the Legal Department XI of August (DJ) at the Law School of USP, acting in attention and orientation to clients, along with the on duty interns. Currently, he is an apprentice intern at the Legal Formation Program (PFJ), providing attendance to legal processes, besides participating in studies related to the most recurrent matters in DJ the Legal Department cases. At the Law School of USP, José Bento also joins the editorial team of Revista Acadêmica São Francisco (an undergraduate research journal), and is a member of Arte Retórica, a study group focused on Ancient and Contemporary Rhetoric.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English, Spanish and French

PUBLICATIONS

• Making Patagonia an “Australian Argentina” and making the Amazon tightly Brazilian: depictions and political projects in Roberto Payró’s and Euclides da Cunha’s travel writings (1898, 1904-1905) (Global Histories, Freie Universität Berlin, 2021).
• Tensões de Euclides da Cunha, dilemas do Brasil hoje (Nexo Jornal, 2019).
• Papilas modernistas: alteridade e identidade nacional no diário de viagem O Turista Aprendiz, de Mário de Andrade (Revista de História Bilros, 2017).

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Laryssa works in the area of Third Sector and Impact Business, legally assisting third sector entities and companies with a focus on social impact businesses for the constitution and development of organizations and companies and offering strategic advice for the definition of projects and programs, as well as representation before public and parliamentary bodies.

Before joining VMCA, she was an intern for the Human Rights Public Defender Unit in São Paulo, engaged in strategic lawsuits and other legal remedies, concerning violations of collective rights.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

She is a law student at the University of São Paulo (USP), with conclusion expected for December 2022. She is also enrolled in PITES VII, a dual-degree program carried out under a partnership between the University of São Paulo and the Université Lumière Lyon II, through which she is pursuing a licence en droit (France J. D. equivalent).

She also had the opportunity to do an academic exchange program at Sciences Po Paris, digging deeper into political sciences and international relations for six months.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

She currently participates in the Laboratory of Ethnic-Racial Studies Quilombo Oxê, an extension of USP Law School to discuss racism and its socio-legal impacts.

In addition, she worked as director of the financial and legal affairs of the Enactus USP São Francisco, another extension activity, to develop and implement social projects that empower vulnerable communities. Additionally, she was a volunteer researcher at the “History, narratives and memory of Human Rights” study center at the International Center for Human Rights in São Paulo, linked to the Chair San Tiago Dantas of the São Paulo Academy of Law.

She also participated in activities of the Female Expression Nucleus and the University-Prison-Community Dialog Group, both activities from USP.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese, English and French

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Laura works in the area of ​​Third Sector and Impact Business, legally assisting entities and companies with a focus on social impact businesses through legal advice for the constitution and development of organizations and companies, strategic advice for the definition of projects and programs, as well as representation before public and parliamentary bodies.

Before joining the VMCA, she was an intern at the Federal Public Ministry, working at the Nucleus for Combating Corruption, focusing on cases of administrative misconduct. She was also an intern at the Court of Justice, at the 2nd Civil Court of the Jabaquara Forum.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

She is a law student at the University of São Paulo (USP), with windup scheduled for 2023.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

She is currently an advisor at Sanfran Social and a member of the Female Expression Nucleus and the Study Group “Dialogues on Public Governance”, all extension groups at the USP Law School (FDUSP).

In addition, she is a member of the Administrative Law Study Group of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and participates in the “Cycle of Debates: Law and Public Management” promoted by the Brazilian Society of Public Law (SBDP) in partnership with the FGV.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese and English

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Mateus practices in the areas of competition, regulation and data privacy, especially in cases regarding mergers, investigation of anticompetitive practices, negotiation of agreements with the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) and various consulting activities.

Before joining VMCA, he was an intern at Marchini Botelho Caselta Advogados, working in the areas of competition and regulation.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Bachelor of Laws Candidate at the University of São Paulo (USP).

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Currently works as Student Editor at the Revista de Direito Mercantil, Industrial, Econômico e Financeiro (RDM), one of the most important Brazilian academic publications in the area of corporate law, where he helps in structuring the magazine’s peer review procedure. He also writes on a regular basis to Gazeta Arcadas, a student’s magazine at USP, on subjects such as culture, politics and tech.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese and English

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Priscila acts in the competitive area, in cases involving economic concentration, investigation of anticompetitive conducts, negotiation of agreements with the Economic Defence Managing Council (Cade).

Before joining VMCA, she acted as text reviser in communication agencies and publishers.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Priscila is an undergraduate law student at the University of São Paulo (USP), with conclusion estimated to 2024. Bachelor in Letters (2015) from the College of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at USP.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

She was an administrative intern at the Legal Department XI of August (DJ) at the Law School of USP, acting in attention and orientation to clients, along with the on duty interns. Currently she is an apprentice intern at the Legal Formation Program (PFJ), providing attendance to legal processes, besides participating in studies related to the most recurrent matters in DJ cases.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese and English

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Sofia works in the area of ​​Third Sector and Impact Business, legally assisting third sector entities and companies with a focus on social impact businesses for the constitution and development of organizations and companies and offering strategic advice for the definition of projects and programs, as well as representation before public and parliamentary bodies.

Before joining the VMCA, she was an intern at Landi, Rodrigues, Nakano e Giovannetti Advogados, where she worked in the area of ​​Corporate Law and acquired experience in the personalized management of clients, developing strategic assistance for their demands. Besides, she participated in several operations in the financial market and projects on the General Data Protection Law. She also worked as an intern in the area of ​​Corporate Law, which was very important for her experience in private contracts.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

She is a law student at the University of São Paulo (USP), with windup scheduled for 2022.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

She is currently a member of Sanfran Social, an extension of the USP Law School that provides free legal assistance to NGOs and Third Sector institutions, where she prepares analysis and legal opinions mainly on corporate, compliance, tax and administrative matters.

In addition, she was a member of the Legal Department XI de Agosto, which provides free legal assistance to people in vulnerable situations, working in the screening processes and monitoring of legal processes. She also participated in activities of the Arcadas Vestibulares and the University-Prison-Community Dialog Group, both from USP.

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

Portuguese and English