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Presentation

2018
was a challenging year for competition law in
Brazil. The Administrative Council for Economic
Defense (CADE) had to deal with a variety of
important topics: from investigations related to the truck drivers’
strike to intellectual property cases CADE had been dealing with for
almost a decade; from mergers in the financial, steel, agrochemical
and other industries to cases stemming from the Carwash Operation.
CADE also published a number of institutional documents, including
rules regulating access to case file, a guide to antitrust remedies
and a regulatory act intended to bring to an end the long-standing
jurisdictional dispute between CADE and the Central Bank.
As a practitioner with over three decades of
experience in Competition Law in Brazil, I have witnessed firsthand
the evolution of CADE and of the competition bar in Brazil, leading
to a increasingly complex and multifaceted environment. In view
of such challenging context, my partners and I decided to work on a
short review of the most relevant cases and events in 2018, leading
to the publication of this short book.
While we do not plan to write about every single
case that CADE assessed in 2018, our goal is to review the most
important cases to offer (i) a guide summarizing the basic aspects of
the year’s major antitrust discussions and (ii) a record of how antitrust
enforcement is evolving in Brazil. We hope this material is helpful
to competition scholars and practitioners in Brazil and abroad. We
also hope it helps the business community to have an overview of
the current path of competition policy.
May this be the first edition of many that will
follow the next years.

JOSÉ DEL CHIARO