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The Legal 500 Brazil Awards 2025
By Dannemann Siemsen
At a ceremony held on the 13th in São Paulo, partner Cândida Ribeiro Caffé received the ‘IP Next Generation Partner of the Year’ award during The Legal 500 Brazil Awards.
The Legal 500 Brazil Awards are determined on the basis of The Legal 500's market-leading independent research for the annual directory. The winners are selected by a team of judges and more than 20 researchers.
Cândida has worked at Dannemann Siemsen since 1999, being responsible for the contracts area. She has a postgraduate degree in Intellectual Property Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and specialised courses in Tax Law and Corporate Law and Capital Markets from the Getulio Vargas Foundation.
She has extensive experience in transactions involving intellectual property rights and business contracts, particularly in drafting and analysing agreements involving technology transfer, technical assistance, licensing and assignment of intellectual property rights, franchising, software, agency agreements, commercial concessions and commercial contracts in general.
She is the former president and current counsellor of LES Brasil (Licensing Executive Society) and former legal director of the Brazilian Franchising Association - RJ Section. Co-coordinator of ABPI's technology transfer commission since 2012. Full professor of the postgraduate programme in Intellectual Property at PUC/Rio.
Dannemann Siemsen
Recognised as leaders in Intellectual Property in Latin America, we are a team of experts who has been dedicated to defending industrial and intellectual property since 1900. We operate throughout the world, encompassing first-rate civil and criminal advocacy, covering diverse areas of Law and all segments of industry. We are partners of large national and international companies.
Today we have offices in three Brazilian state capitals and we have gathered a team of practitioners that lead in knowledge of intellectual property, litigation, contracts and other areas of Law.
This allows us to advise our clients in the main legal proceedings, making us a strategic partner in the pursuit of innovation and knowledge.
We have more than 280 lawyers and an extensive team of Industrial Property Agents – an experienced and specialised technical team that is kept up-to-date with the transformations and demands of the market.
We are the support for innovation and knowledge.
We live in a dynamic world, where knowledge is decisive for any company to stand out in the market. We believe in the value of human capital and in creativity as a source of innovation.
With more than a century of experience and a wide range of services, we are proud to be the foundation for our clients to seek innovative and disruptive paths.