Amanda Athayde

Professor of Law at the University of Brasilia (UnB). PhD in Business Law from the São Paulo University (USP), BA in Law from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), BA in Business Administration in the UNA Centre. International student in the Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne. Author of books, several papers and book chapters in the area of Business Law, Competition, International Trade, Compliance, Immunity/Leniency Agreements, Trade Remedies and Public Interest, Anticorruption. As former Trade Analyst, worked in 2013 in the early negotiation of international cooperation and facilitation investment agreements. From 2013 to 2017, she was the Head of the Leniency Unit and Chief of Staff at CADE’s General Superintendence, responsible for all the leniency negotiations regarding the cartel cases. In 2017, Amanda was nominated to join the Public Prosecution Office, as a legal advisor on the competition cases to be judged at CADE’s Tribunal. From 2019 to april 2022 she was the Undersecretary of Trade Remedies and Public Interest of the Secretariat of Foreing Affairs of the Ministry of Economy in Brazil. Co-founder of the network Women in Antitrust (WIA) Brazil, host of the Podcast “White Coffee Business Law” - Direito Empresarial Café com Leite and Counsel at Pinheiro Neto Advogados.