Bruno L Peixoto

Lanna Peixoto Advogados

Bruno Peixoto received his Master of Laws (LLM) degree from the University of Chicago Law School, is vice chair of the international antitrust law committee of the American Bar Association, Section of International Law, and head of the antitrust practice group of Lanna Peixoto Advogados. Bruno Peixoto has distinguished experience in complex and multifaceted antitrust litigation, having represented companies from a variety of industries in investigations concerning cartelisation and unilateral conducts before CADE and the SDE and obtained landmark decisions in actions in federal and state courts. Mr Peixoto has also successfully elaborated and filed the first private actions in Brazilian legal history for damages caused by cartelisation, including the first collective actions.

Bruno Peixoto regularly advises leading companies on their commercial practices and business strategies. He has also advised merging companies on complex transactions, performing a comprehensive assessment of specific efficiencies derived from integration as well as their effects on Brazilian and Latin American markets. He has elaborated and conducted notifications of mergers and acquisitions in industries as diverse as steel, retailing, telecommunications, and food processing.

Before founding Lanna Peixoto Advogados, Bruno Peixoto was an attorney at the Antitrust Department of the Ministry of Justice (SDE). He held positions both in the Merger Control Division and in the Anti-competitive Practices Division where he prosecuted international cartels.

Mr Peixoto is also founder and president of the Brazilian Institute for Economic Analysis of Law, a non-profit organisation to advance economic analysis of Brazilian law and issue public policy recommendations whose members include politicians, scholars, and practioners who have conducted research in law and economics in the world’s leading universities. He is also active in the academic community and has lectured extensively and published articles on antitrust law in both Brazilian and American law journals.