A 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.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- '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.'
Key clients
- Ipiranga
- Nestlé
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.