EDAP was a pioneer in offering economic consulting services in preparing competition defenses in merger control and administrative proceedings before the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE). Over the last two decades, our office has acquired vast experience in this area, having participated in the principal cases analyzed in the context of the Brazilian Competition Defense System (SBDC) and in all variety of economic sectors.

Our work in the area of competition defense includes the drafting of economic opinions, risk analysis, studies to determine the relevant market, assistance with notifications and merger control proceedings, preparation of defenses in antitrust actions, and the identification of competition contingencies, among other services.

EDAP provides assistance in preparing the necessary information, studies, and economic opinions in competition protection proceedings.

The increasing economic integration between Brazil and the wider world has amplified the amount of competition protection litigation. In Brazil, proceedings involving subsidies, safeguards, and, principally, dumping actions are investigated by the Department of Competition Protection (Decom) of the Ministry of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade (MIDC) and judged by the Board of Foreign Trade (Camex).

Due to its wealth of experience in the competition protection area, EDAP provides strategic guidance to companies involved in such proceedings. We also offer assistance in preparing analyses of requests for temporary or permanent changes to the Mercosul Common External Tariff (TEC).

EDAP has developed a practice area specifically designed to provide technical assistance to companies and law offices involved in lawsuits and arbitration proceedings, through the preparation of economic opinions, sector and market analyses, technical notes, and asset evaluations, as well as in preparing answers to technical questions.

We are also able to prepare asset inventories in cases involving the winding up or sale of a company, employing the techniques most indicated by current legal scholarship and jurisprudence.

EDAP also performs technical studies in litigation and arbitration proceedings to quantify future losses and loss of profit amounts.

Relying on its deep knowledge base in economic theory and the most modern techniques for mathematical and econometric modeling, EDAP conducts studies and analyses of regulatory questions in all manner of regulated sectors.

Our expertise includes the infrastructure, transport, communications, energy, pharmaceutical, and supplemental health insurance sectors.

For companies operating in regulated sectors, EDAP provides studies to aid their participation in public consultations on a variety of questions, including fees, service quality, and investment, among others.

EDAP provides economic studies and analysis to assist its clients in their decision making process. Based on a precise understanding of each client’s needs, we develop specific solutions by relying on our deep knowledge of economics and modern analytical tools.

Our sector studies and analyses include an examination of market characteristics, evolution and perspectives, as well as forecasts and simulations. Through extensive qualitative analysis and consistent econometric modeling, our studies and analyses allow us to answer questions regarding the expected behavior of a variety of relevant variables, such as supply and demand and prices, among others.

EDAP maintains an important collection of the economic studies and sector analyses we have performed, with an emphasis in the paper and pulp, industrial gases, cement, agro-industrial, pharmaceutical, shopping center, and beverage industries, among others.

EDAP offers workshops, lectures, training sessions, and specialized consulting with personalized content to meet the specific needs of our clients.

With their vast personal experience in academic instruction, our partners possess the necessary knowledge to train audiences of all kinds, either at lectures, in-company events, or in-house law firm training courses.