Tendências Consultoria Integrada is one of Brazil's leading economic consulting companies. Tendências' clients include large and medium-sized companies, law offices and business organisations in all sectors of the economy. Tendências is renowned for its economic and quantitative analysis and knowledge of the Brazilian economy. Over the years, Tendencias has built a solid reputation for its independent expert opinion on macro and microeconomic issues. Tendências' experts strive to apply economic, financial, and quantitative principles to solve complex business, regulatory and legal challenges. Tendências' team is composed of economists with solid academic backgrounds, having studied in the top universities in Brazil and abroad. The consultancy's body of experts also has vast experience in government, business and regulatory agencies. Among Tendências partners are a former minister of finance, a former Central Bank president, and a former president of CADE (Brazilian Antitrust Commission). Tendências combines the academic rigour and professional pragmatism needed to provide solutions to the problems faced by decision makers. Tendências has played an important role in prominent antitrust cases in the past few years. Tendências has introduced several new techniques in antitrust cases in Brazil, which played a decisive role in the decision of several cases and contributed to the improvement of economic antitrust analysis in Brazil, with large use of econometric methods and simulation models.