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José Antonio Batista talks to GCR about his role as international adviser at Brazil’s Council for Economic Defence (CADE)
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Practitioners, agency officials and other antitrust specialists have pegged Brazil and it’s three-tiered competition enforcer as perhaps the best and brightest among the world’s developing countries. Ron Knox in Vancouver
Premium Article - Tuesday, 28 September 2010
“We remain open and we welcome dialogue, discussion and even criticism,” Sun Miao of China’s Ministry of Commerce told delegates today at GCR's International Merger Conference 2010.
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Lino Beraldi Bueno e Belluzzo Advogados yesterday announced it has hired Eduardo Caminati as a partner in the firm’s competition practice in São Paulo.
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Brazil’s Council for Economic Defence (CADE) has today issued its highest ever fine of 2.9 billion reais (€1.3 billion) to five industrial gas manufacturers for alleged long-term cartel activity.
Premium Article - Thursday, 19 August 2010
Brazil’s Council for Economic Defence (CADE) has unconditionally approved a merger between banks Itaú and Unibanco. The deal will create the country’s largest non-government bank.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Visanet and Visa do Brasil have met obligations to satisfy a settlement agreement with Brazil's Council for Economic Defence (CADE).
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Banco do Brasil has convinced the country's Council for Economic Defence (CADE) that its acquisition of Nossa Caixa Nosso Banco did not breach competition rules.
Premium Article - Monday, 05 July 2010
Brazil’s Secretariat for Economic Monitoring (SEAE) has recommended that the country’s Administrative Council for Economic Defence (CADE) approve a merger between food companies Sadia and Perdigão, subject to commitments.
Premium Article - Thursday, 24 June 2010
Brazil’s Secretariat for Economic Law (SDE) has begun an investigation into an alleged DRAM memory chip cartel.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Brazil’s Secretariat of Economic Law (SDE) has released new measures aimed at bolstering cartel prosecutions.
Premium Article - Tuesday, 15 June 2010
A Federal Court in Brazil has upheld an 11-year-old antitrust ruling by the country’s Council for Economic Defence (CADE) that fined a group of steelmakers for engaging in cartel activity.
Premium Article - Friday, 11 June 2010
Brazil’s Council for Economic Defence (CADE) has approved French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis's purchase of Brazilian generics group Medley, on the condition that they divest three drugs.
Premium Article - Thursday, 27 May 2010
Brazil's antitrust tribunal, CADE, has given Embraport the green light for the construction and operation of a port terminal in Santos, nearly eight months after the deal was submitted to its offices.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 26 May 2010
The president of Brazil’s Council for Economic Defence (CADE), Arthur Badin, has announced he will not stand for reappointment when his term expires in November.
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