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Experience

Lauro advises clients in all areas of antitrust law, including notifying the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) of M&A transactions, analyzing competition risks, reviewing trading and competition compliance policies, investigating anticompetitive practices, reviewing association, partnership and distribution agreements, defining and reviewing trading, compliance and competition policies, and anticompetitive conduct investigations before antitrust authorities in Brazil. His team has already negotiated and approved hundreds of transactions. Lauro also works with various markets and industries, including automotive, construction, infrastructure, energy, technology, pharmaceutical, supermarket, telecommunication and transportation. His practice covers competition-related litigation, such as loss and damage suits, contract reviews and contractual disputes, as well as unfair competition cases.

Lauro also specializes in advising companies, investors, sponsors and financiers in relation to infrastructure, public works, public service concessions and public-private partnerships (PPPs), as well as general administrative law concerns.

Lauro is a member of the Brazilian Institute of Studies on Competition, Consumer Affairs and International Trade (IBRAC), where he served as chairman between 2020 and 2021. He is also a member of the Lawyers Institute of São Paulo (IASP), as well as a board member and coordinator of the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Basic Industries’ (ABDIB) Legal and Tax Committee.

Education

Bachelor of Laws – Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

Recognitions

Chambers Brazil – Competition & Antitrust (2009 – 2024);

LACCA Approved – Administrative Law (2016 – 2024);

Latin Lawyer 250 – Antitrust and Competition (2020; 2023 – 2024);

The Legal 500 – Competition & Antitrust (2012 – 2019), International Trade & Customs (2016) and Public Law (2019);

Análise Advocacia – Antitrust (2028 – 2024), Automotive & Autoparts (2017 – 2020) Pharmaceutical (2022 – 2024) and São Paulo (2017 – 2024);

Euromoney Expert Guides – Competition & Antitrust (2016);

IFLR 1000 Financial and Corporate (2015 – 2022) and Project development (2023);

Thomson Reuters – Stand-out Lawyer (2024);

Who’s Who Legal Brazil – Competition (2014, 2023) and Thought Leaders Brazil: Competition (2020, 2022– 2023);

Who’s Who Legal Global – Competition (2021 – 2023).