We are BGA, a law firm specialized in Economic Law, founded by Priscila Brolio Gonçalves and team.
We aggregate the 25-year experience, the credibility and the spotless reputation of partners Priscila and Mariana Villela with the talent and ingenuity of a team of younger lawyers.
We have been consistently working together, providing our clients with strategic services in high profile and complex matters, in an ethical, skillful, innovative, discrete and meticulous way.
We are the ideal law firm for companies and people, inside or outside Brazil, who, just like us, aim to be the best in their areas.
Matters of Economic Law have become increasingly present in the daily routine of companies and executives due to the strict enforcement of the Brazilian Antitrust Agency (CADE), the Public Prosecution Offices, Parliamentary Investigation Committees, Consumer Protection Authorities and other entities in the federal, state and municipal spheres. We advise clients in various fields of the economy (digital markets, technology, financial and payments, oil and gas, healthcare, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, textiles and footwear, agribusiness, auto parts, among others) aiding them to:
assessment of the competitive impacts of legislation or government regulation;
designing comprehensive strategies to address clients’ issues, including dialogue with the appropriate agents, assessment of administrative or judicial proceedings, drafting extrajudicial notifications, among others;
advice and representation in connection to public consultations and public hearings;
competition consultancy in regulatory impact assessments.
advising and drafting reports and legal opinions;
providing services as an auditing board member, monitoring body or ombudsman; ombudsman;
representing our clients in investigations conducted by Internal Affair’s Offices, the Public Prosecution Offices, Parliamentary Investigation Committees and other enforcement authorities in the federal, state and municipal spheres;
negotiating settlements;
providing advice regarding anticorruption-related lawsuits.
general counseling, deal planning, drafting reports and legal opinions regarding transactions, agreements and market practices;
pre-merger notification of transactions (mergers and acquisitions, associative agreements, joint ventures); joint venture) para aprovação do CADE;
monitoring and opposing deals adverse to our clients’ interests;
representing both complainants and defendants in government investigations (cartel-related matters, exchange of sensitive information, refusals to deal, resale price maintenance, discriminatory behavior, tie-in and bundling arrangements, among others);
settlement and remedy negotiations, including leniency agreements;
conducting internal investigations and antitrust audits;
advising clients on competition-related lawsuits.
advising and drafting reports and legal opinions;
designing, implementing and revising Compliance Programs regarding antitrust, anticorruption, consumer law and trade remedies;
drafting guidelines and booklets;
designing and training legal and commercial teams; promoting courses, presentations and lectures;
counseling on the design and development of applications and software.
general counseling, designing of business policies and guidelines, drafting reports and legal opinions;
structuring and conducting recall procedures; recall de produtos;
representing our clients in investigations conducted by the Consumer Protection Authorities, such as SENACON and PROCONs, the Public Prosecution Offices, Parliamentary Investigation Committees and other enforcement authorities in the federal, state and municipal spheres;
settlement negotiations;
advising clients on lawsuits regarding consumer matters.
advising and drafting reports and legal opinions;
submitting claims related to foreign trade tariffs, preferences and exemptions (e.g., ex-tariffs);
monitoring and opposing third-party claims;
representing and advising on trade remedies investigations, such as anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, safeguards and anti-circumvention; antidumping, subsídios, salvaguardas e antielisão;
representing and advising on matters related to the Technical Group for Public Interest (GTIP) and the Foreign Trade Chamber (CAMEX);
providing legal assistance in trade remedies-related lawsuits.
drafting data privacy policies;
mapping risks and red flags and adapting internal processes to ensure adherence to data protection regulations;
drafting reports, advice and legal opinions on related issues;
advising clients before the Brazilian Data Protection Authority (ANPD).
