Latin America - Brazil • City focus - Brasilia

Pinheiro Neto Advogados

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Pinheiro Neto Advogados fields a strong offering in concession disputes, administrative improbity cases, and administrative sanctions for clients across the transport, sanitation, healthcare, defence, technology and banking sectors. Dispute resolution also features heavily in the team’s workload, including proceedings before the Supreme Federal Court (STF). Carlos Vilhena is dedicated to mining law and government relations, José Alexandre Buaiz Neto centres his practice on compliance, anti-bribery and antitrust issues, and Daniel Costa Rebello is often called upon in complex private and public corporate investigations. Leonardo Rocha e Silva is highly skilled in negotiations before the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), and Vicente Coelho Araujo focuses on appellate litigation before the superior courts.

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Key clients

  • Hypera
  • SBM Offshore
  • Produtos Roche Químicos e Farmacêuticos
  • Banco Modal
  • BASF
  • Eternit and Sama Minerações Associadas
  • Caixa Econômica Federal
  • Apple
  • CCR – Concessionária da Rodovia Presidente Dutra (Novadutra)
  • Siemens
  • JP Morgan
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Amazon/AWS
  • Facebook

Work highlights

  • Represented Hypera in negotiations with the CGU and the AGU to enter into a leniency agreement and settle a potential bribery case involving several Brazilian politicians.
  • Advised SBM Offshore on the semi-annual monitoring of compliance commitments undertaken in the scope of a leniency agreement entered into with the AGU, the CGU and Petrobras.
  • Assisted Produtos Roche Químicos e Farmacêuticos in an extraordinary account proceeding launched by the Paraná State Court of Auditors (TCE-PR) regarding an investigation of alleged irregularities in the Ministry of Health's acquisition of Trastuzumab for use in the Unified Health System.