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Eduardo Frade

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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 and of the Global Private Litigation Committee 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 – 2024);
Latin Lawyer 250 – Antitrust & Competition (2022 – 2025);
Análise Advocacia – Antitrust (2018 – 2023), Health (2022 – 2023) and Distrito Federal (2022 – 2023);
Global Competition Review (GCR) – 40 under 40 (2020);
Lexology Index Brazil – Thought Leaders: Competition (2022, 2024);
Lexology Index Global – Construction (2022 – 2023) and Competition (2023 – 2024).
Merger Control: CADE’s Tribunal rules on calculating a new cap for gun-jumping fines
CADE’s Tribunal permits company to offset fine paid to Comptroller-General’s Office for antitrust violations
Merger Control: a 2023 retrospective and the outlook for 2024
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New members take office at Brazil’s antitrust authority
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2023 in numbers: a retrospective of CADE’s enforcement of anticompetitive conduct
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Probes of HR, tech firms were 2024 priorities for Brazil CADE
The Brazilian antitrust authority strengthened its competition defense efforts in 2024 by taking an “avant-garde” approach to its examinations of how large companies might have exchanged sensitive information during hiring processes. The Administrative Council for Economic Defense also closely examined alleged anticompetitive practices by technology companies.
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