SumBarbara 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, competition and antitrust.
Ms Rosenberg heads the competition and antitrust practice at BM&A and she also has significant experience in regulated sectors, as well as in trade-related issues. The antitrust practice at BM&A's 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 AmBev, AstraZeneca, BASF, Bayer, Bradesco Saúde, Brookfield, Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (CBD), Continental AG, Electrolux, Globo, GP Investimentos, Itaú Unibanco, JBS, Magnesita, Mitsubishi International Corporation, Nexans, Nokia Siemens Network, Petrobras Distribuidora, Samsung, Sanofi-Aventis, TAM, Tenaris/Techint, Total and Ultra.
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, Ms Rosenberg was a partner at another prestigious Brazilian firm, was a foreign associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and also acted at the intellectual property division secretariat of the World Trade Organization. Ms Rosenberg holds a Doctorate from the University of São Paulo and an LLM from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ms Rosenberg is the vice chair of the Brazilian committee on competition and intellectual property of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); the competition officer at the Brazilian Institute of Competition, Consumer and International Trade (IBRAC); a member to the international task force of the antitrust section of the American Bar Association (ITF-AA); a member of the leniency working group of the International Bar Association; a non-governmental adviser to the International Competition Network; and a member of the competition committee of the Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo branch (OAB/SP).
Ms Rosenberg's practice has been recognised in the past years as a first-tier practice by Chambers Latin America, and as highly recommended by GCR 100, PLC Which Lawyer and Best Lawyers among other relevant publications. She was nominated among the "40 under 40" worldwide competition lawyers by Global Competition Review (2009 and 2012), and she was named the "Best Lawyer Under 40" by the GCR 2011 Global Awards.mary paragraph or bullet points
