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JOANA TEMUDO CIANFARANI

São Paulo | SP

Joana Cianfarani is a lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in Competition Law, Compliance and Corporate Investigations. She has worked for nearly 16 (sixteen) years in full-service law firms in Brazil and abroad, and also in renowned companies at the beginning of her career. She has extensive experience in representing national and foreign clients before the Brazilian Antitrust Authority (CADE) in the complete range of competition matters.

 

She has solid expertise in structuring, coordinating and conducting large multidisciplinary internal corporate investigations and in strategically addressing identified legal exposures. She is experienced in advising clients on compliance, private litigation and strategic commercial matters with a competition component.

Related areas

  • Antitrust and Competition Law
  • Compliance & Corporate Investigations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lawyer with more than 20 years experience, solid expertise in Competition Law, Compliance and Corporate Investigations. Extensive experience in representing clients before the Brazilian Antitrust Authority (CADE) in the complete range of competition matters. Expertise in structuring, coordinating and conducting large internal corporate investigations and in strategically addressing identified legal exposures.

 

Experienced in advising clients on compliance, private litigation and strategic commercial matters with a competition component. Experience of more than 15 years acting in one of the largest full-service law firms in Brazil, nearly 8 of which as a partner at the competition and compliance and corporate investigations practice groups.

SOME OF THE INDUSTRIES OF EXPERIENCE

  • Supplementary Health Sector
  • Electric Power and Power Generators
  • Auto Parts and Automotive Products
  • Agricultural Defensive Products
  • Banking Sector
  • Chemical sector
  • Railways sector
  • Fuel sector

RECOGNITIONS

Her solid experience and expertise has been recognized by relevant legal publications, including Latin Lawyer 250, GCR 100 and Best Lawyers and LACCA Approved.

EDUCATION

  • Graduated in Law by Universidade de São Paulo (1999)
  • Graduate Certificate, Business Administration and International Management by Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo (2004)
  • Specialized Graduate, Competition and Economic Law by Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo (2006)

INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Member of OAB/SP (Brazilian Bar Association – São Paulo) since 1999.
  • Member of the Special Committee on Compliance Issues
  • Member of the American Bar Association (ABA) for 7 years.
  • Speaker at the XX Congress of IBRAC, speaking about “Distribution Channels: competitive limits and dangers of over enforcement”.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Worked as an associate at Allen & Overy in the competition practice groups of its offices in Brussels and in London (2010/2011)

PUBLICATIONS

  • Derrubando os mitos da arbitragem para a reparação de danos concorrenciais – Revista do IBRAC Número 02 – 2021 · 31 de dez de 2021
  • Arbitragem e Regulamentação pelo CADE – JOTA · 12 de out de 2021
  • Getting the Deal Through – Merger Control (Brazil Chapter) – Global Competition Review · 2012 a 2017
  • Competition Law in Brazil”, chapter of the book “Competition Law in Latin America” – Wolters Kluver · 1 de jan de 2016
  • “Novos Rumos das Sociedades de Advogados com o Advento da Nova Lei de Defesa da Concorrência” – CESA’s Yearbook · 1 de jan de 2013
  • Corporate Internal Investigations (Brazil Chapter) – Oxford University Press · 1 de jan de 2013
  • “The Brave New World of Brazil’s New Competition Law” – Competition Law International · 1 de ago de 2012
  • “A New Competition Law in Brazil: Definitely Maybe” – Journal of European Competition Law & Practice · 1 de dez de 2011
  • “Remedies in the Brazilian Antitrust Experience: Issues and Incentives” – Competition Law International, IBA · 1 de jan de 2010
  • “A Defesa da Concorrência no Setor Elétrico “, article from the book Regulação Jurídica do Setor Elétrico – Lumen Juris · 1 de jan de 2006

News

Full video of the panel “Distribution Channels: competition limits and dangers of over enforcement”, part of the program of the 27th International Seminar on Competition Law organized last year by IBRAC – Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos de Concorrência, Consumo e Comércio Internacional with the participation of our partner Joana Temudo Cianfarani as a speaker. Available at: https://lnkd.in/eNdeRJTE.

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