Felipe Monnerat > BFBM – Barroso Fontelles, Barcellos, Mendonça & Associados > Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > Lawyer Profile

BFBM – Barroso Fontelles, Barcellos, Mendonça & Associados
EDIFICIO PRESIDENTE CASTELLO BRANCO 230
RIO DE JANEIRO
Brazil

Work Department

Litigation

Position

Partner

Career

Felipe has 15 years of experience as a lawyer and is a partner at the firm and a litigation expert. His main areas of practice are Telecommunications, Constitutional, Regulatory, Labour, and Consumer Law, in which he works both as a consultant and conducting litigation, with an emphasis on the Superior Courts, especially the Supreme Federal Court, the Superior Court of Justice, and the Superior Labor Court. He is the leader of our Telecommunications Law team and has been working extensively on a wide range of matters within the field, concerning regulatory restrictions, consumer and workers’ rights, state and local law limitations, and others.  

 

Languages

Portuguese and English

Education

He holds an LL.B. from the State University of Rio de Janeiro – UERJ (2007). 

Lawyer Rankings

Brazil > Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Singled out for its experience before the superior courts in Brazil, BFBM – Barroso Fontelles, Barcellos, Mendonça & Associados is particularly active in litigation involving the banking, telecoms and digital spaces. Its sectoral coverage is not restricted to these fields, as the team is also regularly engaged by leading domestic and international clients operating in the oil and gas, insurance and entertainment industries. The firm recently created a sub-group focused on judicial restructurings, which is under the leadership of Rafael Barroso Fontelles, whose areas of expertise include civil, commercial, consumer and constitutional cases at all levels of the court system in Brazil. Specialised in digital law, Eduardo Mendonça is regularly engaged in matters concerning regulatory issues and freedom of speech. Felipe Monnerat, who oversees the telecoms law team, is skilled in proceedings before the high courts.