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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James Panichi Senior Editor, Asia Pacific

James Panichi

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

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