Trench Rossi Watanabe

Antitrust, International Trade

Associate

Andrea Da Cunha Cruz joined the Firm in 2022. She integrates the Antitrust practice group, with focus on providing legal assistance regarding a variety of matter concerning competition law and international trade. Andrea has a wide breadth of experience in the representation of clients before the Brazilian Competition Authority (the Administrative Council for Economic Defense or CADE) in administrative proceedings regarding both cartel investigations and unilateral anticompetitive practices. She also has a wide-ranging track record of commercial transactions filed with CADE. Her practice further includes preventive counselling concerning antitrust risks involved in commercial practices and contracts; handling internal investigations; and structuring and implementing antitrust compliance programs. As to international trade, she mainly advises representatives of the national industry and Brazilian importers in antidumping and subsidy investigations.

English, French (Intermediate), Portuguese

She graduated from the University of São Paulo Law School with a degree in law and from from Columbia Law School with a LL.M. degree, and she also holds a postgraduate degree in Regulatory Economic Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas.