Ana Paula Martinez

Ana Paula Martinez is a partner with the Antitrust and Compliance Practice Groups. From 2007 to 2010 she was the Head of the Antitrust Division at Brazil’s Ministry of Justice. She co-headed the cartel sub-group of the International Competition Network with the US DoJ.

Before entering the government, she was an associate with Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton in Brussels.

She is a member of the International Bar Association and of the American Bar Association Sections of Antitrust Law. Named "Lawyer of the Year 40 and under" at 2016 and 2014 GCR Awards and selected as one of the top five global dealmakers in the same award in 2015, she has been included by GCR on its lists "Top Women in Antitrust" and "40 under 40". Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, LACCA, and Who's Who Legal listed her among the world's leading competition and compliance lawyers.

She is licensed to practice in Brazil and NY and served as antitrust advisor to Unctad, to the World Bank and to the Government of Colombia. She is a non-governmental advisor to the ICN. She holds an LL.M. from the University of São Paulo and from Harvard and a Ph.D. from USP. She is a member of the ETHIC Intelligence Certification Committee and serves as an advisor to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, to the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies of Loyola University Chicago and to Insper. She is a member of the arbitration chamber of São Paulo Stock Exchange (B3).