O Estado, a empresa e a defesa da concorrência: os limites de cada um dos atores e a justificativa dessa política, estudados pela análise dos atos de concentração

Abstract

The work presented herein has its purpose in the study of Antitrust Law from a perspective of the private law as to an attempt to understand the restrictions imposed by CADE to corporations when reviewing mergers and acquisitions that would allegedly likely to reduce competition. In this sense, the paper will examine the market as an institution established by Law in accordance with the social and economical development of a given society and which, without the proper guidelines and institutionalization, it functions incorrectly, thus it moving away from the primary objectives established in its idealization and inception. In fact, market power produces the biggest distortions in this institution, operating the three existing flaws: monopoly, information asymmetry and consumers losses. Therefore; it is the very Law that conceives boundaries and limits, employing a variety of techniques, in order to regulate the market and ensure its correct functioning. Bearing this concept of market in mind, the paper considers the formation of the State and consequently its own market - and of the current legislation as to the understanding of State s economic intervention and corporation regulation. In determining the courses of action from both the government and the corporation its boundaries will be met in the moment of the antitrust analysis, in order to verify that once the State s intervention is justified, it shall be done with respect to the laws and constitutional rules applied to the principles of the right of property, fundamental rights and stony clause. As a conclusion to this work, it will surface that limiting a company s actions for the sake of free competition is of utmost necessity. Further, it is legislative based and it is imperative to the State to carry it out. However, when imposing the restrictions it deems necessary, the State also by force of national legislation - must not guide private activity nor neglect the rights withheld by corporations when determining the required restrictions. Thus, the State shall then see that the parties may choose on the best way to be remunerated or guarantee the indemnification due to the damages caused by the imposed restrictions