Eduardo Frade
Brazil Guide 2024
Band 3 : Competition/Antitrust
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About
Provided by Eduardo Frade
Practice Areas
Antitrust; Corporate investigations
Career
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 Corporate Counsel 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
Centro Universitário de Brasília (UniCeub)
Bachelor of Laws
Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Bachelor of International Relations
Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV)
Specialization in Competition Defense
Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (Enap)
Specialization in Public Policy and Government Management
Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Master of Laws
George Mason University, USA
Visiting Scholar – Global Antitrust Institute
George Washington University, USA.
Participant in the Advanced Seminar on Regulatory Policy
Chambers Review
Brazil: Contentious
Eduardo Frade is admired for his adept handling of a wide range of competition matters, including merger control proceedings and cartel investigations. He draws upon his previous experience as the General Superintendent at CADE to advise clients on complex mandates.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Eduardo Frade provides extraordinary services."
"Eduardo deals with relevant and interesting cases."
"Eduardo Frade provides extraordinary services."
"Eduardo deals with relevant and interesting cases."