FIUS's Antitrust & Competition practice advises clients on operating in compliance with Brazil's Antitrust Law. We help companies assess and minimize competition-related risks, and we design, review and roll out antitrust programs.
Our focus is on ensuring that business practices align with applicable law — from identifying potential risk areas such as price-fixing and market-allocation arrangements to developing mitigation strategies. We believe compliance is essential to fair competition and to preventing legal and reputational fallout. Our work spans policy drafting, training of directors and employees, and internal audits, taking a comprehensive approach to keep companies operating within legal boundaries, avoiding sanctions and protecting their market reputation.
We also advise clients facing allegations of anticompetitive conduct, providing strategic representation before antitrust authorities, regulators and courts.
Among our main areas of practice:
- Antitrust risk analysis and design of mitigation strategies;
- Antitrust compliance due diligence;
- Antitrust impact assessment in M&A transactions;
- Counsel on obtaining required regulatory approvals;
- Design of policies, procedures and training programs for ongoing antitrust compliance;
- Legal counsel in administrative and judicial proceedings on competition matters.