The Justices who decided the appeal resolved to annul the antitrust authority´s decision, warding off the fine applied to the port operators.

On December 1st, 2015, Law No. 13.196/2015 was published in the Official Gazette, changing the merger filing fees for cases of mandatory submission in the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense, among other issues.

The Brazilian antitrust authority has recently issued an amendment to the current rules governing cease and desist commitments in administrative proceedings for the investigation of antitrust infringements.

O Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica e o Banco Central do Brasil aprovaram, em 5 de dezembro, o Ato Normativo Conjunto nº 1, que disciplina procedimentos para conciliar suas atuações de forma eficiente ...

The Brazilian Congress has passed a bill which, if approved by the President as expected, will make major changes to that country's merger control system.

On June 10, the Brazilian President signed the Bill 1,179 into law.

Normative Ruling No. 12, dated of March 11, 2015, issued by the Administrative Council for Economic Defense ("CADE"), came into force.

The Administrative Council for Economic Defense ("CADE") has recently executed a "Memorandum of Understanding" with the World Bank Group, as well as a "Covenant for Cooperation and Sharing of Information" with the Inter-American Development Bank ("IDB").

On April 18, 2018, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense ("CADE") and the National Waterway Transportation Agency ("ANTAQ") ...

On September 19, 2007, the Administrative Council for Economic Defence (CADE) in full session concluded that various security services companies were guilty of acting as a cartel in their participation in public bidding procedures for government contracts.

The Tribunal of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense determined, last Wednesday, December 4, 2013, the opening of an administrative proceeding to investigate the abuse of dominant position by the Gemini Consortium, a joint venture constituted by Petrobras, White Martins and GNL Gemini for the commercialization of liquefied natural gas.

On 11 March 2015, Brazil's competition authority, CADE – Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica, pub­lished Resolution 12/2015, establishing rules on the procedure for submitting consultations to the author­ity.

The Administrative CADE recently published the Resolution No. 24, with changes to the administrative proceeding to investigate potential gun jumping cases, especially regarding the criteria for fine calculation.

On September 6th, 2016, Resolution No. 16 of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense –CADE – was published in the Official Gazette.

There are supply agreements in which the buyer, trying to protect itself, inserts a clause providing that in case supplier sells the same product to a third party to prices lower than the ones agreed in the supply agreement, supplier shall offer to buyer the lower price practiced with third parties.

Although the Brazilian Competition System (comprised of the Secretariat of Economic Accompaniment – SEAE, the Secretariat of Economic Law – SDE and the Administrative Economic Defence Council – CADE) recently signalled that its focus is turning more to clamping down on anticompetitive conduct, merger review is still on the agenda (despite the number of notifications reviewed has fallen from 517, in 2003, to 372 in 2006).

The Brazilian antitrust agencies have begun to formalize various Cooperation Agreements for the purpose of proceeding with the investigations related to antitrust violations. These agreements have been entered into, for example, with the Federal Ministry of Public Prosecution and Defense (MPF), State Ministries of Public Prosecution and Defense (MPE), and the Federal Police, and Cooperation Agreements have been executed with Argentina and the United States. Others are yet to come. All these Coop

No dia 16 de janeiro de 2018, foi publicado no Diário Oficial da União o Decreto 9.266/2018, que alterou a estrutura do Ministério da Fazenda, com repercussões para o Acompanhamento Eco...

The discussion about the role of Antitrust in the digital economy is a hot topic.