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Indirect Regulation, Antitrust Immunity and Public Undertakings in Brazil

By  |  July 17, 2014

Posted by Social Science Research Network

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    Indirect Regulation, Antitrust Immunity and Public Undertakings in Brazil – Roberto Domingos Taufick (Stanford Law School)

    ABSTRACT: Section 31 of Brazil’s new antitrust law (Law 12,529/2011 – BNAL) keeps the Brazilian tradition of extending antitrust scrutiny over any legal entity, including public undertakings (PUs). In this paper I discuss how PUs may be and have been used to indirectly regulate sectors in Brazil, how they complement the work of industry-specific regulatory agencies and how have they been receiving informal antitrust immunity from the Brazilian antitrust agency (Cade).