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W@Competition&nbsp;Five Star Professionals&nbsp;Iberia

GUIDE STARS

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Partner at SRS Advogados, in the Competition and EU practice.

Partner

SRS Advogados

Lisbon

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Competition

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Law Practice

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Lawyer

Attorney / Solicitor

Associate in pioneering Spanish competition law boutique.

Associate

Martínez Lage & Asociados

Paloma co-heads the Spanish competition practice at Baker McKenzie since 2021.

Baker McKenzie

Paloma practiced law for more than 20 years at Spanish competition law boutique MLAB Abogados - initially Martínez Lage & Asociados, and in the period 2008 to 2011 Howrey Martínez Lage (Spanish office of Howrey). 

MLAB Abogados

Senior Associate in Spanish competition law boutique dealing with all aspects of Spanish and EU competition law.

Senior Associate

Martínez Lage, Allendesalazar & Brokelmann

Senior Associate in Howrey's Madrid office.

Howrey

In-house lawyer in the Regulatory and Corporate Affairs Department, dealing with regulatory and competition law issues. 

In-house lawyer

Vodafone

Madrid Centro

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Co-head of the Antitrust and EU Law practice.

Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira - Cuatrecasas

Barcelona

European Union Law

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Uría Menéndez Proença de Carvalho

Madrid

Head of EU & Competition Practice

Garrigues

SHINING STARS

Jones Day

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Intellectual Property

Rita focuses her practice on  State aid law and antitrust matters. She is also experienced in merger control and private enforcement matters and in designing and implementing competition compliance programmes. Rita has a particular expertise in the aviation, distribution, energy, financial and waste management sectors. 

PLMJ Law Firm

Antitrust Counsel

Clifford Chance

Rita is responsible for the EU and Competition Law practice area in Lisbon.

Pérez-Llorca

Rita advises on a broad range of competition matters and sectors, including multi-jurisdictional filings, antitrust and State aid. She also has litigation experience before national and EU Courts. 

Cruz Vilaça Advogados

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Energy

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Digital

At the beginning of 2022, I joined the EU & Competition team of VdA Vieira de Almeida, as Principal Consultant. VdA is a Tier 1 Portuguese law firm.
I am advising clients on merger control, gun-jumping issues and leading the defense of a case accusing a supplier of participating in an agreement and/or concerted practice related with hub and spoke. I also advised in a case related with state.
Finally, I am working in the area of ESG and Competition, and I oversaw the first due diligence to a company regarding fair competition and taxonomy (minimum safeguards). 


Principal Consultant

Vieira de Almeida

I was a Competition Expert at Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC), the Portuguese Competition Authority, where I worked for more than 10 years.
At the AdC, I have developed extensive merger analysis and infringement proceedings involving several economic activities.
I was the team leader of the first gun jumping case Decision without settlement issued by the AdC (PCC 1/2020 - Fidelidade SGOIC). This case was upheld to the Competition Court, and the AdC’s infringement Decision was confirmed. 
I was also the case handler of the two prohibition merger Decisions issued by the AdC (in a total of three): Ccent. 4/2013 Controlinveste*ZON Optimus*PT /Sport TV*Sportinveste*PPTV and Cent. 12/2009 TAP/SPdH.
On behalf of AdC, I served as Co-Chair of the Merger Working Group of ECN (European Competition Network) for the years of 2018-2020, where I lead, jointly with the European Commission and the other designated Member-State, the works of the group regarding merger control policy. 


Case Handler

Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC) - Portuguese Competition Authority

I was a Competition Lawyer at PLMJ, a Tier 1 Portuguese law firm, at the EU & Competition team headed by Mr. José Luís da Cruz Vilaça, former Portuguese Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union. I represented GALP Portugal in the case merger Case No COMP/M.5005 - 
GALP ENERGIA / 
EXXONMOBIL IBERIA (first phase decision with remedies)

Competition Lawyer

A participated in a case of vertical restraints in the retail sector

Trainee

DG Competition

RISING STARS

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Specific duties
•	drafting and negotiating of contracts including international procurement projects such as the Gautrain Project (South Africa) and the Thessaloniki Project (Greece);
•	supervising claims and law suits; and
•	coordination of external lawyers.


Inhouse lawyer

I was responsible for all legal matters of the company, reporting directly to the managing director. 
Specific duties
•	managing the general strategy, budget and personnel of the department;
•	managing the company's intellectual property rights portfolio;
•	drafting contracts such as licenses, R&D cooperation agreements, general terms of sale;
•	managing the legal corporate structure of the company and transfer pricing agreements; and
•	leading external lawyers and legal counsels of the company's subsidiaries worldwide.


Head of Legal

Enza Zaden

I advised the Akzo Nobel businesses worldwide on all competition law matters.
Particular focus
•	the company's competition law compliance program and 
•	identifying and managing competition law risks in the daily business of the group. 


Senior Competition Lawyer

Akzo Nobel

I advised and represented clients in all areas of EU and Dutch competition law including cartels, abuse of dominant position and merger control filings.
High profile cases 
•	lLitigation before the European Courts in relation to legal professional privilege,
•	lLitigation before the General Court concerning the air cargo cartel (part of the winning team of the Matter of the Year at GCR Awards 2016) 
•	European Commission's investigation into biofuels and financial markets


Stibbe

I advise and represent leading Spanish and international companies on Spanish and EU competition law matters including cartels, abuse of dominant position and merger control filings. 
Core experience 
•	multi-jurisdictional cartel cases including leniency and compliance issues;
•	abuse of dominance cases and related advisory work such as review of rebate and bonus schemes;
•	competition law litigation before the Spanish and European Courts and follow-on damages claims;
•	advisory work on rebate and bonus schemes and complex and trans-border vertical and horizontal agreements such as selective distribution systems and patent pools;
•	multi-jurisdictional merger filings and notifications with Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) and the European Commission. 


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Full-time
My everyday practice focuses on advising international clients on both EU and Spanish competition law across a range of industries, including telecommunications, IT, e-commerce and consumer goods & retail

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Legal advisor to the Minister of Culture of the  Portuguese XVIII Constitutional Government