Bernardo Cascão > BMA Advogados > RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil > Lawyer Profile

BMA Advogados
LARGO DO IBAM, 1 – 4th FLOOR, HUMAITA
RJ. 22271-070
Brazil
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Work Department

Competition / Technology and Digital Businesses

Position

Partner

Career

Bernardo Cascão is a partner in BMA’s Competition practice area, and a member of the firm’s Technology and Digital Businesses group, focusing on competition in the digital environment. He represents clients before Brazil’s competition authority, CADE – Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica, in merger reviews and investigations into potentially anticompetitive conduct such as cartels. He also assists clients in reviewing their business practices, developing competition compliance programs and providing training on compliance programs.

His clients include some of the largest national and international companies doing business in various sectors such as pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, information technology, energy, oil and gas, ports, construction, finance and investment banking, insurance and reinsurance, durable goods sales, pharmacies and drugstores, fuel distribution and sales, tourism, and parking services.
Bernardo was a foreign associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Brussels (October 2013 to March 2014).
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
He lectures in Competition Law in the LL.M. program at the Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais – IBMEC, and has taught Industrial Property Law at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV Rio (2011-2012) and at the Magistrates’ School of the State of Rio de Janeiro – EMERJ (2009).

Languages

Portuguese,English

Memberships

Bernardo Cascão is a member of the Legal Issues Commission of AmCham Rio de Janeiro.

OAB/RJ nº 188.223

Education

LL.M., Economic and Intellectual Property Law, Universidade Cândido Mendes – UCAM (2010)

LL.B., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ (2006)