Hub and Spoke Cartels and Bid Rigging in Brazil: Current Landscape and Forward-Looking Considerations

This article aims at providing an overview of the current status of Brazilian antitrust landscape and particularly CADE’s case law pertaining to hub and spoke cartels under the perspective of bid rigging. Initially, an overview of bid rigging is laid out. Then, hub and spoke cartels as a potential framework for procurement collusion is presented especially considering CADE’s major hub and spoke cartel precedent, which was a bid rigging case. After that, an analysis is carried out of recent r