Lauro Celidonio Neto has nearly thirty years of experience advising businesses and investors in connection with antitrust, constitutional, administrative, and regulatory matters, with a particular focus on the energy, oil and gas sectors. He is vide president and coordinator of the Brazilian Associationof Infrastructure and Basic Industry (ABDIB), a trade association which represents the interests of approximately 150 infrastructure industry companies from the energy, petroleum, transportation, construction, telecommunications, basic industry, investment bank, and service provider sectors. He also serves as a Counselor at the São Paulo Lawyers Institute (IASP) and as a Director of the Brazilian Institute for the Study of Competition, Consumer Affairs, and International Trade (IBRAC).
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CADE’s Tribunal provided, during judgment sessions held between August and November of 2016, further guidance for the assessment of international cartels, indicating when they are considered able to produce effects in Brazil, in breach of Brazilian competition law. These decisions were (...)
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On May 20, 2015, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (“CADE”) issued guidelines on gun jumping (“Guidelines”). These Guidelines are not binding on parties involved in transactions that require antitrust approval in Brazil, but they serve as an important guidance for companies and (...)
