Profile: Barbara Rosenberg

Competition

Biography: Competition

Barbara Rosenberg is a partner of Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão, a full-service Brazilian firm recognised by Latin Lawyer as one of the most prestigious law firms in Brazil and listed by Chambers Global and other well-known publications as a leading firm in various areas, including corporate/ M&A and competition/antitrust.

Ms Rosenberg heads the competition and antitrust practice at BM&A and she also has significant experience in regulated sectors (with focus on pharmaceutical and telecoms), as well as in trade-related issues. The antitrust practice at BM&A has been developed based on a solid academic background combined with extensive practical experience in representing local and foreign clients in antitrust investigations, merger control cases, and in the development of compliance programmes. BM&A antitrust practice has been recognised by clients for its result-oriented focus, which aims at shaping clients' business strategies to meet both legal requirements and business objectives. BM&A's competition practice has been substantially increasing in recent years and its publicly known portfolio of clients include companies such as Alcan, Bayer, Brascan Energética, Continental, Electrolux, Friboi/JBS, GP Investments, Lanxess, Nexans, Organizaçàﾵes Globo, Philips, Submarino/Americanas.com, Techint/Tenaris and UBS-Pactual.

Before joining the firm, Barbara Rosenberg was the head of the antitrust department at the Ministry of Justice, where she also held the role of deputy secretary at the Secretariat of Economic Law (SDE), having devoted large efforts in re-engineering Brazil's competition regime between 2003 and 2005. Prior to that, Rosenberg was a partner at another Brazilian prestigious firm, was a foreign associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and also acted at the intellectual property division secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Ms Rosenberg holds a Doctorate Degree from the University of São Paulo and an LLM from the University of California, Berkeley, and she currently teaches at the extension courses of Getúlio Vargas Foundation Law School. Rosenberg is the vice chair of the Brazilian committee on competition and intellectual property of the International Chamber of Commerce; a member of the board of the Brazilian Institute of Competition, Consumer and International Trade Law Review (IBRAC); a member of the leniency working group of the International Bar Association; a non-governmental adviser to the unilateral conduct working group of the International Competition Network; and a member of the competition committee of the Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo branch (OAB/SP).