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Paula Camara
Rio de Janeiro
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Experience
Paula has extensive experience in antitrust matters, representing Brazilian and foreign clients from various sectors of the economy in complex competition-related issues, including merger control, anti-competitive conduct investigations (especially regarding cartels and abuse of dominant position) structuring competition compliance programs, and general consulting. She holds an LL.M. from Stanford Law School (2015).
Paula is a member of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Antitrust Committee and the Brazilian Institute for Competition, Consumer, and International Trade Studies (Ibrac). She also serves as a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN). Paula is a guest professor at IBMEC’s postgraduate program in Rio de Janeiro and has authored several publications in Brazil and abroad on competition law.
Education
Bachelor of Laws – Faculdade de Direito Milton Campos (Belo Horizonte, Brazil);
Postgraduate degree in Economic Law with an emphasis in Competition Law – Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV);
LL.M. – Law, Science and Technology – Stanford Law School (USA).
Recognitions
Latin Lawyer 250 – Corporate & M&A (2024 – 2026);
Legal 500 – Competition & Antitrust: Rising star (2022);
Análise Advocacia – Antitrust (2020, 2021);
Análise Advocacia Mulher – Antitrust (2021, 2022, 2024 – 2026), Oil & Gas (2021, 2022, 2024), São Paulo (2021, 2022) and Rio de Janeiro (2024 – 2026);
Lexology Index Brazil – Competition (2024 – 2025);
Lexology Index – Gloabl Elite Thought Leader: Competition (2024 – 2026).
Anticompetitive conduct enforcement in Brazil in 2025 and the outlook for 2026
CADE: 2025 institutional developments at Brazil’s antitrust authority and the outlook for 2026
Anticompetitive conduct in Brazil: CADE’s key findings in the second half of 2025
Institutional developments in Brazilian competition enforcement: September-December 2025
Merger control developments in Brazil: August-December 2025
DEAL: Cencosud buys Brazil’s St. Marche amid supermarket’s restructuring
Upon closing, Cencosud will acquire the entirety of St. Marche’s operations spanning the state of São Paulo – adding to its existing portfolio of Brazilian supermarket chains, which includes Giga Wholesale, Prezunic, Bretas, GBarbosa and Spid.
Completion of the deal is subject to approval from Brazil’s antitrust watchdog – CADE – and the successful completion of St Marche’s ongoing recuperação judicial (RJ) proceedings. The retailer filed for RJ shortly after agreeing to the sale to Cencosud, following the collapse of an earlier out-of-court recuperação extrajudicial (EJ) restructuring, which was launched in April 2025 and later suspended amid objections from its creditors.
Click here to access the deal published at Latin Lawyer.
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Oba Hortifruti acquires food stores from Americanas
Brazilian supermarket chain Oba Hortifrut has hired Mattos Filho to acquire 10 Natural da Terra stores from Americanas as part of the Brazilian retailer’s restructuring process.
Click here to access the deal published at Latin Lawyer.
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DEAL: Brava Energia buys Campos Basin oil blocks from Petronas
Mattos Filho has helped Brazil’s Brava Energia acquire interest in two offshore oil and gas fields from Malaysia’s state-owned group Petronas for US$450 million.
Click here to acess the deal published at Latin Lawyer.
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