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How Brazil’s new antitrust-lawsuit legislation could boost the prospects for cartel victims
16 December 2022 00:00
Duration: 11:10
A new Brazilian law could help the victims of anticompetitive conduct to bring civil lawsuits against cartelists and be compensated for the damages they have suffered. Yet a key provision that would double the size of damages payable to the victims would only apply to new civil lawsuits — bad news for those with existing cases before the courts.
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13 December 2022 16:51 by Ana Paula CandilNew Brazil law will help courts with civil antitrust suits, however some benefits will likely not be immediately applied to ongoing civil lawsuits.
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James Panichi Senior Editor, Asia Pacific

James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the... Read more
Ana Paula Candil Senior Correspondent, Latin America

Ana Paula joined MLex in Brazil in 2014 writing about antitrust investigations and merger reviews. Prior to that, she worked for several trade publications and in TV. She lived in Washington DC, where she worked for Al Jazeera English in 2010. She studied journalism and holds a postgraduate diploma in International Business Management from the George Brown College in Toronto and a Master of Business Administration diploma in government relations from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).