Alexandre Barreto de Souza, President, Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defence

WASHINGTON – Brazil’s ongoing economic troubles have not prevented that country’s competition law enforcers from carrying out their mandate, according to Alexandre Barreto, president of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE). In this interview, recorded at the 2018 ABA annual Spring Antitrust Meeting, de Souza says that his agency has continued to avoid transactional negotiations, instead calling upon companies to bring their own competition solutions to the bargaining table. The agency has also invested in hiring additional staff and improving its technology, including the development of a data mining project that maps anticompetitive economic trends.
by Whitney McKnight