Luciana Martorano has over 15 years of significant experience representing national and international clients of several industries before the Brazilian Competition Authority (CADE). Her two key areas of practice are merger control and cartel investigations.
Luciana has cleared more than 100 M&A transactions submitted to CADE and has participated in several investigations and defenses involving anticompetitive conduct, including cartels and the exchange of sensitive information. She is also one of the few lawyers in Brazil who have participated in the negotiation and signing of leniency agreements within CADE.
On the advisory side, Luciana has extensive experience in developing antitrust risk analysis in M&A transactions and vertical restraint practices in addition to developing, training and implementing corporate compliance programs, helping companies avoid or mitigate financial losses and remedy antitrust exposure.
Luciana is an enthusiastic student of topics involving technology and law: Multisided Platforms Businesses, Fintechs & Regtechs, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (mainly IoT and Algorithms). In recent years, the market has recognized Luciana for her experience in advising companies in creating business strategies involving antitrust and regulatory issues related to the high-tech industry, digital economy and disruptive markets.
Luciana is also engaged in learning how to contribute with diversity issues in the legal sector, studying the best ways to deal with lawyer’s biases and with the law firms mixed feelings related to sexism, race, culture, sexual orientation, religion, social classes, and gender identity differences. Directly contributed to build one of the biggest Brazilian law firm’s programs for D&I.
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