Eduardo Frade

Partner
Mattos Filho
eduardo.frade@mattosfilho.com.br
Brazil

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 recognised, 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.

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