3rd Edition – Latin America Healthcare and Life Science 360 Conference

Author
Henrique Kruger Frizzo

Henrique Kruger Frizzo joined the firm in 2004 and became a partner in 2014. He is the leader of the Life Sciences group and also integrates the Public and Regulatory Law group. He acts in the preparation of legal opinions and consultations on topics of his expertise, including tenders and contracts with the government, public service concession contracts and public-private partnerships. He has experience in complex negotiations with the government and assists clients in structuring effective government relationships. He also acts in the identification of irregularities and illicit acts in contracts and relationships with the government and in the area of sales to defense and public security agencies, including in the structuring of technological compensation agreements.


In the Healthcare sector, he advises pharmaceutical, medical device and other companies in the sector on a wide range of matters, including transactions involving commercial agreements and complex negotiations with the government and health technology transfer agreements. He also advises clients on market access strategies, including procedures for the incorporation of new health technologies into SUS and ANS, and represents companies in CMED administrative proceedings. Henrique prepares consultations involving clinical research and regulatory issues, reviews promotional materials, and acts in administrative litigation involving local health authorities and ANVISA. Additionally, he provides support in compliance issues, digital health and analysis of the constitutionality/legality of legislation. Due to his expertise, he participates in the drafting of bills of law and regulations for the industry.


In Public Law, Government Affairs, Regulatory and Compliance, he has extensive experience in corporate investigations, with a focus on government procurement and corruption, and their respective consequences in the civil and administrative areas. We assist clients in defining strategic decisions regarding the results of the investigation and participate in the defense before or during the negotiation with the civil and administrative police authorities responsible for the cases.

Author
Flávia Rebello Pereira

Flavia Rebello joined the Firm in 1999. She is a partner in the Intellectual Property, Technology and Data
Protection Team. Her practice includes data protection, licensing, sourcing and transactions, franchising and e-commerce and Internet.

She has a wide breadth of experience in drafting, negotiating and reviewing agreements involving intellectual property, including supply of technology, trademark license, patent license, franchise, copyright license, software license and distribution, SaaS outsourcing.

She also has expertise in data protection and privacy issues, including implementation projects, review of policies, and data breaches. Legal advice in various aspects of e-commerce, Internet and social media.
*Trench Rossi Watanabe and Baker McKenzie have executed a strategic cooperation agreement for consulting on foreign law.

Author
Paulo Casagrande

Paulo Casagrande joined the Firm in early 2020 as the partner in charge of the Antitrust & Competition group. Mr. Casagrande has 20 years of professional experience, both in the private and the public sectors.

At the federal government, he was the first ever Head of the Bid Rigging Unit at the Secretariat of Economic Law of the Brazilian Ministry of Justice (SDE), the agency then in charge of investigating cartels before the reorganization of the Brazilian Competition Defense System in 2012. During his stint at the government, he conducted several investigations together with other enforcement agencies, and also represented the Secretariat at the meetings of the Competition Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris (France).

While in the private bar, Paulo was a partner at leading international and Brazilian Law firms, and has a deep knowledge of several industries and a broad business vision. He has been especially active in the representation of clients before CADE (the Brazilian antitrust agency) in complex merger reviews and investigations of alleged anticompetitive practices. Paulo also accumulates extensive experience in assisting infrastructure and tech companies active in dynamic digital markets.

*Trench Rossi Watanabe and Baker McKenzie have executed a strategic cooperation agreement for consulting on foreign law.

Author
Liliana Espinosa

Solid background in M&A, Private Equity and Corporate law. Liliana Espinosa is a best-in-class lawyer who has led many domestic and cross border acquisition transactions and sale of companies and assets including private and public M&A and PE deals, mergers, spin-offs, and other sophisticated structures, in different industries such as energy, infrastructure, financial institutions, telecommunications, retail, education, agribusiness, fishery, pharma, among others. She worked at O’Melveny & Myers, achieving wide experience and been exposed to sophisticated transactions in multiple jurisdictions. Liliana is the head of Corporate/M&A in the Lima office and serves as member of the Latin America M&A/PE Steering Committee of the Firm.

About Liliana, Chambers & Partners states that she is highly regarded by clients and praise her: “She was absolutely fantastic on the deal,” while underlining her “professionalism, availability, swiftness and accuracy of advice.” Other sources portray her as “brilliant in her specialism, with an incredible capacity for work.” They additionally appreciate her personal involvement in matters, as well as her responsiveness. Liliana is recognized for her people skills and is highlighted as being talented, intelligent and a pleasure to work with. About her work, Latin Lawyer (LL250) has stated that she is “known for her determination, intelligence and hard work”. A client highlights “her great M&A experience, which has helped the client’s company anticipate potential issues and solve them with well-considered proposals”. A private equity client said that, “it’s a privilege to have her represent you in M&A deals”, adding that her positive attitude helped his company get positive results from a complicated negotiation.

Liliana is undoubtedly the highest ranked female M&A lawyer in Peru in all reputable legal rankings.