Founding partner of the firm. She has more than 20 years of experience in large firms in Brazil. She is in charge of the Civil Litigation department, which has more than one thousand ongoing cases with clients in different sectors of the economy. She also works in the area of Arbitration as well as dispute settlement, in and out of court, as well as corporate disputes, as well as advising in the area of conflict prevention. She is a member of the Legal Board of AACD (Association for the Assistance of Disabled Children).

Founding partner of the firm. Alexandre has more than 20 years of experience in large firms in Brazil, having worked as a foreign associate with Kirkland & Ellis on Chicago (EUA). He is in charge of Corporate, Financial and Capital Markets and Contracts. He works with mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, public and private offerings of securities, structuring investment funds, securitization of receivables, foreign investments and advises on regulations of the Brazilian Securities Exchange Commission and the Brazilian Central Bank.

He was a partner with Machado, Meyer, Sendacz and Opice for 35 years, where he was in charge of the Dispute Resolutions/Prevention, Consultancy, Litigation and Arbitration. He works in different lawsuits and arbitrations, mainly related to civil, commercial, corporate and capital markets areas.

Marilia has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of Civil Litigation and Arbitration, representing national and foreign companies in disputes involving civil, corporate, commercial and consumer matters. For the past five years, she has been working on issues involving energy, supporting agents and institutional entities. She also advises dispute prevention and resolution.

Juliana has more than 20 years of experience in the largest law firms in Brazil, representing national and foreign clients. She works in different conflict resolutions, either in court or out of court, judicial reorganization and bankruptcy, arbitrations, in addition to real estate disputes. She also provides advice in the areas of Consumer and Civil Law. She has experience with aviation and infrastructure law.

Pedro has worked in large companies as head of legal departments (Bayer, Holcim) and for the past 18 years he has worked in firms, in charge of the Competition and Regulatory Area. He also worked in the mining area, in cases with the National Department of Mineral Production – DNPM. He is the President of the Administrative Board of the Brazilian Institute of Competition, Consumer Relations and International Trade Studies (IBRAC). He is also a member of the Commission of Competition and Economic Regulation Studies of the Brazilian Bar Association (SP), having been their president from 2004 to 2009.
He is the coordinator of the book “Talking to CADE and SDE”, Ed. Singular, 2017 and co-author of the book “Comments on the New Competition Act: Law No. 12,529, issued 30 November 2011”, Ed. Gen/Método, 2012. Co-author of the article “Practical studies for the application of penalties by CADE between Law No. 8884/1994 and Law No. 12.529/2011” published in the book “5 years of Competition Act: Summary, Case Law and Challenges for the Future” IBRAC, 2017. Author of the papers: “Competition Law – this stranger who lives in our lives”, published by the newsletter Conjuntura Jurídica, 2013; “Can my company be accused of cartel? How to avoid such risk?”, published in the website Migalhas, 2012. “Considerations about competition based on repositioning the product”, published in the website Migalhas, 2012; “The new antitrust act as a vector for development”, published by the Sand and Gravel Journal (Revista AB Areia e Brita), of the National Association of Entities of Producers of Aggregates for Civil Construction, 2012 and the website Migalhas, 2012.

He is a partner with the Corporate area, having 17 years of experience in large law firms in Brazil, where he acquired wide experience in local and international operations in the area of Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity. He represents national and foreign clients in local and cross border Mergers and Acquisitions, sale of assets, joint ventures and other corporate operations, involving many sectors of the economy.