ABA Section of Antitrust Law March 2019 – Antitrust Updates from Latin and South America

In this AT/CP podcast from the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, hosts Kail Jethmalani, Elizabeth Kraus and Krisztian Katona are joined by guests Alexandre Macedo, Pablo Trevisan, and Oscar Cardoze, who give listeners an overview of key developments in competition law and consumer protection law in their regions. They discuss how their countries’ leniency programs have been refined and explain the challenges they have dealt with in the area of merger control.

Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo is the general superintendent at the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) in Brazil.

Pablo Trevisan is the commissioner at Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia (CNDC) in Argentina.

Oscar Cardoze is the administrador general at ACODECO in Panama.

(Host) Kail Jethmalani is an associate at Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

(Host) Elizabeth Kraus is the deputy director for international antitrust at the Federal Trade Commission.

(Host) Krisztian Katona is counsel for international antitrust in the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of International Affairs.