Mariana Pargendler is full professor of law and director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Governance at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School in São Paulo (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.