Gico Advogados Associados

GHD ranked by Leaders League

editor — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:49:47 +0000

GHD Advogados has been ranked among the best brazilian law firms in the antitrust investigations category of international publication Leaders League. For the full report, see here.

Latin Lawyer highlights deal by GHD Advogados

editor — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:08:36 +0000

International publication Latin Lawyer highlighted GHD Advogados’ participation in Hapvida/Grupo América deal. For more information, please click here.

GHD ranked by Legal 500 for a third time

editor — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 19:36:35 +0000

Legal 500 released its Brazilian Guide 2018 and highlighted Gico Hadmann & Dutra Advogados in the Antitrust/Competition category.

According to the publication: “Gico, Hadmann & Dutra Advogados is active in cartel investigations, representing both companies and individuals. Recent work includes acting for a high-level executive in the automotive parts cartel investigation before CADE, and for a Brazilian company and certain employees in the bid-rigging investigation into the electric meter market. Practice head Eric Hadmann Jasper is recommended.”

More information here.

GHD ranked in Chambers & Partners 2019

editor — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:12:11 +0000

Chambers & Partners released this week its Latin America Guide 2019 and highlighted Gico Hadmann & Dutra Advogados in the Corporate/Commercial Center West category. Partners Eric Hadmann Jasper and Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr. have been individually ranked in the category.

Partner Eric Hadmann Jasper has been individually ranked in the Competition/Antitrust category, nationwide.

More information here and here.

CHAMBERS & PARTNERS RECOGNIZES GHD FOR A THIRD TIME

editor — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:34:16 +0000

Chambers & Partners released this week its Latin America Guide 2018 and highlighted Gico Hadmann & Dutra Advogados in the Corporate/Commercial Center West category. Partners Eric Hadmann Jasper and Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr. have been individually ranked in the category.

Partner Eric Hadmann Jasper has been individually ranked in the Competition/Antitrust category, nationwide, and moved up a category this year.

More information here and here.

Ivo Gico Lectures about Compliance Program in Austria

editor — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:38:27 +0000

Students in the 2015-2017 Master in Anti-Corruption Studies (MACS) programme finished the in-class part of their current module on Anti-Corruption, Compliance and the Private Sector last week.

Over two weeks at IACA’s Laxenburg campus, the class discussed the challenges of doing business in corrupt environments, the informal economy, effective compliance programmes, corporate social responsibility, internal investigations, and collective action. The schedule included a study visit to the Vienna International Centre for the eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC).

Lecturers for this module were Brazilian professor and practising lawyer Dr. Ivo Teixeira Gico, Jr., and investigations expert Mikhail Reider-Gordon from the United States of America, as well as IACA’s Elena Helmer and Martin Zapata. Richard Bistrong, an anti-bribery consultant, speaker, and author, joined the class by video link to discuss his personal experiences in “A Journey through Crime, Cooperation and Compliance”.

The students also managed to fit in some socializing at an international evening on campus. They come from 17 countries around the world, including Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Denmark, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

The MACS is a two-year, in-career programme consisting of seven modules and a master thesis, and is specifically designed for working professionals. Applications are now open for the 2017–2019 class, which starts in October 2017. For more information and to apply, please click here.

Paper by Ivo Gico used by Brazilian Supreme Court

editor — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:35:03 +0000

The Brazilian Supreme Court quoted partner Ivo Gico’s paper (Princípio da eficiência e o software livre) on case (ADI n. 3.059-RS) that challenged, on constitutional grounds, a State law that forced the State’s public administration to use free and open source software.

More information (in Portuguese) here.

Chambers & Partners recognizes GHD for a second time

editor — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:27:41 +0000

Chambers & Partners released this week its Latin America Guide 2017 and highlighted Gico Hadmann & Dutra Advogados in the Corporate/Commercial Center West category. Partners Eric Hadmann Jasper and Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr. have been individually ranked in the category.

Partner Eric Hadmann Jasper has been individually ranked in the Competition/Antitrust category, nationwide.

More information here and here.

Paper by Ivo Gico used in Public Prosecutors’ decision

editor — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:02:00 +0000

Brazilian Federal Public Prosecutors’ Office (Ministério Público Federal) used Ivo Gico’s Law and Economics paper (Metodologia e Epistemologia da Análise Econômica do Direito) on decision regarding SBM Offshore leniency application. SBM Offshore’s leniency application is connected to alleged corruption in Petrobras’ contracts.

GHD ranked by Legal 500

editor — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:15:26 +0000

Legal 500 released its Brazilian Guide 2016 and highlighted Gico Hadmann & Dutra Advogados in the Antitrust/Competition category.

According to the publication: Brasilia-based Gico, Hadmann & Dutra Advogados acts for companies and individuals in a broad range of antitrust and unfair competition litigation. It is currently representing a company in the healthcare sector in proceedings seeking to annul a fine imposed by CADE. The practice is led by Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr. and Eric Hadmann Jasper, a former deputy head of the antitrust division of the Secretariat of Economic Law.

More information here.