Mariana Villela
| Office: | Rio de Janeiro. |
E-Mail: | mariana.villela@veirano.com.br | |
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Main Practice Areas
Antitrust and Competition Law, Contracts, Litigation , Telecommunications.
Professional Experience
Veirano Advogados' National Antitrust Coordinator.
Mariana focuses her practice in antitrust/competition law. Her experience involves general advice on Brazilian competition law, including advice in relation to day-to-day business practices, risk assessment of specific mergers and commercial practices, merger notifications, challenges to merger notifications before competition authorities, representation of clients in procedures involving anticompetitive practices, litigation involving antitrust issues and preparation of compliance programs. She has acted in many antitrust/competition cases, merger cases and cases involving anticompetitive conducts, including cartel cases and cases involving abuses of a dominant position. Mariana also handles some of the firm’s litigation cases involving antitrust issues.
Mariana is also experienced in litigation, mainly with respect to civil, commercial, civil liability and consumer issues. Mariana’s litigation background contributes to a closer interaction between the firm’s antitrust and litigation practices.
She was Foreign Associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London (1999).
Chambers of Commerce and Associations
- American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham-RJ);
- Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA);
- Brazilian Bar Association (OAB-RJ);
- British Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Brazil (Britcham);
- Brazilian Institute for Studies in Competition, Consumer and International Trade Law (IBRAC);
- Deutsch-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK);
- Economic Law Study Group (GEDECON);
- International Bar Association (IBA); and
- World Services Group (WSG).
Education
Masters Degree in Commercial Law
Law School of São Paulo University (USP)
LL.M degree in Banking and Finance Law
London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), University of London
Bachelor Degree
Law School of Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ)
Languages
Portuguese and English.