Lucas Víspico is a PhD student at the University of São Paulo Law School and a research fellow at the Center for Law, Economics, and Governance at FGV Direito SP.
In new research, Mariana Pargendler, Maria Luiza Mesquita, and Lucas Víspico study how antitrust authorities in the Global South have used family ties to define business enterprises and analyze mergers and acquisitions for possibly anticompetitive behavior.