Leonardo Peixoto Barbosa is a senior associate at Magalhães e Dias – Advocacia, a Brazilian law firm specialized in antitrust law, international trade, consumer law, litigation and arbitration. He is also a PhD candidate at the Law School of the University of São Paulo (FDUSP). Leonardo is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Law School of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, and has authored several articles on Economic and Antitrust Law.
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Last November, on the 10th anniversary of the Brazilian Competition Act (Law No. 12,529/2012, or BCA), a long-expected regulation aiming at incentivizing actions for antitrust damages was enacted in Brazil (the so-called “Brazilian Private Enforcement Package” – BPEP, or Law No. 14,470/2022). (...)
