Joao Lacerda

Joao Lacerda is an associate in the competition law practice group in the London and Brussels offices.

His practice focuses on European competition law, including merger control and antitrust. 

His expertise includes working on complex international mergers, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance cases, and advising on competition law matters related to horizontal and vertical agreements. Joao assists clients in proceedings before the European Commission and EU courts. He has overseen merger notification processes in a number of jurisdictions, often simultaneously.

Prior to joining White & Case, Joao was a public employee at the Brazilian Competition Authority (CADE), where his work covered antitrust investigations and merger control in a broad range of industries, including financial services, automotive and electronic goods. While working for the CADE, Joao acted as delegate of Brazil at the OECD Competition Committee in Paris and undertook training on interrogation techniques applied to antitrust investigations offered by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

Joao holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge and an LLB from the University of Brasília, having spent one semester studying law and economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also completed courses on financial markets at Harvard University and on competition law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).