BrunoBastosBecker

I grew up in the house of a teacher and an engineer, where studying occupied the centre. Being a professor comes from there, and the classroom is still where I work best.

I started advertising before law, and started library science too; I finished neither. What stayed with me from those years is a constant preoccupation with form, design and presentation. Not that I think I write or speak clearly. It is more that the question never leaves me alone, in the classroom, in a legal opinion and in the events I organise.

I read law at UFRGS, spent a year at Giessen on the Unibral programme, took an LL.M. at Yale, where I was an editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation, and completed a doctorate in Commercial Law at the University of São Paulo, with research at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg. I worked in the office of the president of CADE, the Brazilian competition authority, at the Bundeskartellamt in Germany, at competition practices in private firms, and for six years as in-house counsel at Abbott, in Brazil and in Chicago. In 2025 I served as a UNDP consultant to CADE on the public hearing regarding the iOS and Android digital ecosystems.

Six years of in-house practice left me with a research conviction. The legal department is little studied in competition law: academia rarely takes it as an object of study, and outside counsel tends to treat it as a client before treating it as a technical interlocutor. Yet it is there, inside the economic agent, that competition decisions take shape, long before anything becomes a case. I treat the subject as a technical problem, in the classroom, in the programmes I direct and in my research.

Today I am a partner at Berardo Lilla Becker Segala Daniel Advogados, working in competition and digital markets, alongside the firm's corporate, contracts, litigation and regulatory practices. The partnership leaves me the schedule to teach, research and supervise.