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Experience

Eduardo advises clients on a wide range of competition and regulatory matters, including mergers, cartels, leniency, abuse of dominant position, compliance, advocacy, and general competition law consulting. His work in various government agencies (such as the Ministry of Planning and the Civil Aviation Office) has been widely recognized, as well as his leadership in his ten years at the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade), where he played a pivotal role in restructuring Brazil’s antitrust agency and implementing the New Competition Law in 2012, as both a Deputy General Superintendent and General Superintendent.

Considered one of the world’s leading competition lawyers by various legal publications, Global Competition Review named Eduardo one of the top 40 competition lawyers under 40 worldwide in its 2020 “40 under 40” issue. He is a member of the International Cartel Task Force of the American Bar Association – Antitrust Section and has worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He was a guest professor at the FGV Law Program, and is also the author of numerous books and articles on competition law.

Education

Bachelor of Laws – Centro Universitário de Brasília (UniCeub);

Bachelor of International Relations – Universidade de Brasília (UnB);

Specialization in Competition Defense – Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV);

Specialization in Public Policy and Government Management – Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (Enap);

Master of Laws – Universidade de Brasília (UnB);

Visiting Scholar – Global Antitrust Institute – George Mason University, USA;

Advanced Seminar on Regulatory Policy – George Washington University, USA.

Recognitions

Chambers Brazil – Competition/Antitrust (2021 – 2026);

Chambers Global – Competition/Antitrust (2026);

Latin Lawyer 250 – Antitrust & Competition (2022 – 2026);

Legal 500 – Competition & Antitrust (2026);

Análise Advocacia – Antitrust (2018 – 2025), Health (2022 – 2025) and Distrito Federal (2022 – 2025);

Global Competition Review – 40 under 40 (2020);

Lexology Index Brazil – Thought Leaders Competition (2022, 2024 – 2026); Competition (2022 – 2025);

Lexology Index Global – Construction (2022 – 2023) and Competition (2023 – 2026).