Bernadete is a founding partner of CGM Advogados acting in the corporate and M&A areas and is responsible for the firm’s life sciences group. She has vast experience in serving clients in the healthcare, industrial, retail, technology and cosmetics sectors, having assisted numerous international companies in the legal conduct of their operations in Brazil, including in the relationship with distributors, agents, shopping centers, research institutions and hospitals. Her practice includes advising on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance in supplementary health and sanitary matters, incorporation of companies (including regulated activities), mergers and acquisitions and cross-border transactions. She has also represented clients in cases related to product liability, advertising, and regulatory matters involving the Federal Council of Medicine and health surveillance agencies, both at the national and local levels.

Bernadete taught Contracts at the graduate course at PUC-SP from 2006 to 2008 and was a visiting professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, in Chicago, USA, from 2014 to 2016.

Education

• LL.M. from Northwestern Pritzker Law School.
• MBA in Business Management, Fundação Instituto de Administração (FIA-USP).
• Master’s Degree in International Law, Universidade de São Paulo (USP).
• Law Degree, UFRN

Recognition

• Análise Advocacia Mulher (Steel and Mining | 2020-2023; Business Contracts | 2023; Pharmaceutical | 2023)
• Análise Advocacia (Commercial Contracts | 2018-2019, 2022; Steel and Mining | 2019-2022)
• The Legal 500 (Corporate and M&A | 2019)

Languages

• English
• French
• Spanish