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Lauro Celidonio Neto
55 11 3147 7669
lauro@mattosfilho.com.br
São Paulo – Paulista
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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 also 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 relations to infrastructure, public works, public service concessions and PPPs, as well as general administrative law concerns.
Lauro 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
Análise Advocacia 500 – Antitrust (2020 – 2021); Automotive (2020 – 2021); Construction Material and Decoration (2020 – 2021); São Paulo (2020 – 2021)
Chambers Brazil (antigo Chambers Latin America) – Competition & Antitrust (2010 – 2021)
Euromoney Expert Guides – Competition & Antitrust (2016)
IFLR 1000 Energy and Infrastructure – Leading Lawyer: Energy & Infrastructure, Project Development (2015 – 2016)
IFLR 1000 Financial and Corporate – Highly regarded: Project Development (2017 – 2020)
LACCA Approved – Administrative Law (2016 – 2022)
Latin Lawyer 250 – Antitrust and Competition (2020 – 2021)
The Legal 500 – Competition & Antitrust (2012 – 2019); International Trade & Customs (2016); Public Law (2019)
Who’s Who Legal Brazil – Competition (2014 – 2021)
Who’s Who Legal Global – Competition (2021)
Who’s Who Legal Brazil Thought Leaders – Brazil (2020); Brazil – Competition (2021)
Analysis on Brazilian Competition Law: Third Edition
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Competition Law and Policy in Brazil: Second Edition
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Competition law and policy in Brazil: relevant developments and outlook
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CADE releases report on studies discussing competition law aspects of digital markets
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CADE’s take on cooperation between competitors amidst Covid-19 crisis
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Update on CADE’s activities and deadlines
Brazil’s antitrust authority (Cade), continues to take measures amidst the Covid-19 crisis in order to remain operational while also ensuring the safety of staff and members of the antitrust community. Currently, the staff is mostly working remotely. Face-to-face meetings were replaced by videoconferencing and conference calls. Thus far, Cade’s Judgment Sessions have been maintained, but Commissioners are working toward conducting them remotely as well. The change will likely become effective in early April. In the merger control front, Cade remains committed to keeping things on track and has announced that all deadlines remain unchanged. However, given the gravity of the Covid-19 outbreak in Brazil, delays may start happening, especially in cases where Cade depends on the collection of information from market participants. In such cases, CADE may face difficulties in establishing contact with the sources of such information. Moreover, these cases will likely be granted with deadline extensions when requested. On the other hand, changes concerning investigations have taken effect. Following guidance from the Federal Government, Cade issued a note on March 25 declaring the suspension of all deadlines running against defendants in (i) investigations of anticompetitive conduct, (ii) gun-jumping investigations, and (iii) other administrative proceedings for the imposition of procedural penalties. Finally, Cade stressed in the same note that preliminary conduct investigations, proceedings relating to leniency or settlement agreements, and consultation proceedings will continue to run as before. We are monitoring the developments concerning the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on the enforcement of Brazil’s antitrust law and we will update our clients and partners constantly.
Areas of expertise
America Móvil continues buying spree with Nextel in Brazil
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York and Brazilian firm BMA – Barbosa, Müssnich, Aragão have helped Mexican telecoms company América Móvil acquire its Brazilian counterpart Nextel for US$905 million.
Nextel was owned by the US’ NII Holdings, which hired Jones Day in New York, Cleveland and São Paulo and Brazil’s Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados for the sale. Click here and learn more.
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Brazil’s largest chemist snaps up US competitor
Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados in São Paulo has helped Brazil’s largest pharmaceutical retailer Raia Drogasil acquire its counterpart Drogaria Onofre from the US’ CVS Health. Click here and learn more
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