Leonardo Barbosa
Magalhães e Dias - AdvocaciaA popular choice for clients operating in a wide range of sectors, including manufacturing, agribusiness, telecoms, banking, chemicals, oil and gas, and life sciences (among others), boutique Magalhães e Dias - Advocacia is home to a ‘highly qualified team’, which possesses ‘an enormous capacity for understanding and responding to complex cases’. The team provides ‘quick and assertive responses’ in the context of conduct investigations, merger review filings, settlement negotiations, and antitrust and anti-corruption compliance matters, standing out for its strong track record in litigation. Recommended for his ‘outstanding legal knowledge’, department head Gabriel Nogueira Dias is often sought out by major players in administrative and judicial proceedings in this space, as well as merger reviews. A key contact for clients from the real estate and fertilisers industry, Thais De Sousa Guerra is active in compliance, cartel and vertical practice investigations. Cristiano Rodrigo Del Debbio is also recommended for antitrust and unfair competition contentious matters, while Yi Shin Tang stands out for his proficiency in antitrust investigations and merger control for leading multinationals. The ‘highly detailed, proactive and responsive’ Leonardo Barbosa stands out at the senior associate level.
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Testimonials
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- 'Magalhães e Dias is an excellent law firm, with people who are highly qualified to carry out their duties. Their advice is comprehensive, close and dedicated. What sets the firm apart from the rest is that they think outside the box and take care to understand as much detail as possible about the industry in which we operate.'
- 'Gabriel Dias - excellent, a partner who thinks outside the box. Leonardo Peixoto - highly detailed, proactive and responsive.'
- 'Highly qualified team, always working with the client in mind. Quick and assertive responses.'
- 'Gabriel Dias - outstanding legal knowledge and a great ability to make connections and present solutions to the company's issues. Gabriel fluctuates very smoothly between different legal areas.'
- 'The combination of expertise, innovation, organisational culture, client service and reputation make Magalhães e Dias a unique firm.'
- 'Gabriel Dias stands out not only for his legal knowledge, but also for his communication skills, professional ethics, empathy, resilience and ability to solve problems, as well as his reputation and credibility in the legal field.'
- 'Magalhães Dias is an unassuming boutique firm with an enormous capacity for understanding and responding to complex cases. Even though the firm is relatively small, the management knows the legal ways and political connections needed to succeed in an environment as complex as Brazil's.'
Key clients
- Ipiranga
- Nestlé
- Bayer S.A. (CropScience)
- AMBEV - Cia. Brasileira de Bebidas (Anheuser-Busch/InBev)
- ABA – Associação Brasileira de Anunciantes (Brazilian Advertisers Association)
- Hapvida
- Kuehne+Nagel
- Booking.com
- Bradesco Saúde
- Compra Agora
- ICTSI RIO BRASIL
- HP
- Grupo Edson Queiroz
- Grupo Gerdau
- ABIEC – Associação Brasileira de Indústrias Exportadoras de Carne
- ANDA - Associação Nacional para Difusão de Adubos
- Condomínio Shopping Center Iguatemi
- Epson Imaging Devices Corporation
- Fiat Chrysler
- General Motors
- Instituto Jogue Limpo
- ICL - Instituto Combustível Legal
- IBG - Indústria Brasileira de Gás
- Lafarge Holcim
- M. Dias Branco
- Plural
- Pirelli
- Salinor
- Suzano Papel e Celulose
- Whirlpool
- Unilever
- VLI – Logística
- GTM Chemicals
- Tupy S.A.
- TV 1
- Diageo/Ypióca
- Ouro Verde
- Zé Delivery
- Tejofran
- Biomedical
Work highlights
- Assisted Nestlé in the negotiation of an agreement between CADE and Nestlé/Garoto for the approval of the merger between the two companies.
- Assisted Ipiranga with an investigative procedure carried out by CADE’s General Superintendence against three of the largest fuel distributors in Brazil, concerning two public bids for the concession of fuel storage terminals in Vitória/ES’s and Cabedelo/PB’s ports.
- Acts for Oiltanking Logística Ltda., Copa Energia Ltda. and Grupo Edson Queiroz in a merger review proceeding.
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Gabriel Nogueira Dias