Mundie and GHD ex-partners found HD Advogados
Hadmann, Herrera & Dutra Advogados aims to be a reference in Business Structuring, Economic Regulation, and Dispute Resolution
HD Advogados was founded by the union of former partner and leader of the Brasília office of Mundie Advogados, Diego Herrera de Moraes (pictured left), and former partners of Gico, Hadmann & Dutra Advogados (GHD), Eric Hadmann Jasper (pictured centre) and Luiz Filipe Dutra (pictured right).
Headquartered in Brasília, the boutique will focus on the Center-West, Northeast, North, and South regions of Brazil, and will have a network of correspondents in all Brazilian states.
With more than 15 years of legal practice, the partners bring with them solid experience in the health, telecommunications, entertainment and technology, sanitation, energy, education, and real estate markets, sectors that will be the focus of the firm, as well as new markets, such as fintech and means of payment.
The firm combines the solid academic background of its partners, all of whom have graduated from Columbia, Berkeley, or Harvard Universities, with intense practical experience, both nationally and internationally, in cases of great relevance. Besides, they teach in colleges such as UnB, IDP, IBMEC and UniCeub.
Eric Hadmann Jasper: A PhD candidate at the Universidade de Brasília (UnB), with an LL.M. from Columbia Law School and a Philosophy degree from UnB, Eric worked in the Federal Government from 2004 to 2009 in positions related to competition, regulation and consumer law. He was associated with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Brussels. He is a professor of compliance at IBMEC in Brasília and of business and economic law at the Instituto Brasiliense de Direito Público (IDP). He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, cartel investigations and other antitrust offences and structuring of antitrust and anti-corruption compliance programs.
Diego Herrera de Moraes: He practices in the area of strategic dispute resolution, administrative and judicial litigation and arbitration. He earned his LL.M. from Berkeley Law, University of California, where he was Associate Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and also specialized in Law & Technology. He holds post-graduate degrees in law from the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, and the University of Brasilia, and in civil procedural law from the University Center of Brasilia (UniCeub). He served as International Antitrust Specialist at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington. He was a partner and head in Brasilia of Mundie Advogados, a law firm internationally recognized for its performance in regulatory litigation, where, for 16 years, he actively participated in many of the most relevant legal disputes involving telecommunications and electricity sectors. He is a professor of Civil Procedural Law at the University of Brasília, president of the Committee of Civil Procedural Law of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/DF) and member of the International Bar Association (IBA). He is highlighted in many of the main international guides and publications, such as Best Lawyers, Legal 500 and Leaders League, and was elected “Best Lawyers of the year” in the area of Communications and Telecommunications Law, by Best Lawyers, in 2020.
Luiz Filipe Couto Dutra: Mr. Dutra practices in the areas of corporate and contract law, with extensive experience in negotiating and drafting complex contracts, structuring new businesses, and domestic and cross-border corporate transactions. He is a specialist in Corporate Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) and in Tax Law and Tax Accounting from IBMEC. He studied Commercial Law at the University of California Los Angeles and Mergers and Acquisitions at Harvard University. He is a postgraduate professor at IBMEC and Centro Universitário de Brasília (UniCeub), in the subjects of Corporate Transactions, Due Diligence and Negotiation and Contract Law and Contractual Litigation, respectively.
