Victor Leite

Victor Leite focuses on international trade and related regulatory and policy matters, including litigation and enforcement. Victor advises clients in antidumping, countervailing duty (anti-subsidy) and safeguard proceedings in Brazil, the EU, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries in a broad range of sectors, including chemicals, steel, agriculture and certain high-tech products.  Victor also advises clients in customs and trade and national security matters. 

Prior to joining King & Spalding, Victor worked for the Foreign Trade Secretariat in Brazil as the head of the Antidumping and Safeguards division, representing Brazil in trade adjustments negotiations with foreign governments and representing Brazil in trade remedy investigations conducted in many jurisdictions. He also supervised injury analyses and dumping margin calculations and assisted dispute settlement cases at the World Trade Organization involving trade remedies. Victor also worked for the Brazilian Antitrust Authority (CADE), advising the agency’s President on the adjudication of mergers and acquisitions, cartel investigations, and anticompetitive unullateral conduct. He has published a book and articles on trade agreements and on technical aspects of antidumping calculations.

Victor graduated from Penn State Law in May 2024, magna cum laude. He earned a master’s in law from the University of Brasilia in 2022 and an LL.M. in Economic Law and Competition from Fundação Getulio Vargas in 2020. He earned his Bachelor of Laws in 2015 and his bachelor’s in international relations in 2011, both from the University of Brasilia.
At Penn State Law, Victor was an editor of the Arbitration Law Review. Victor was a recipient of the National Council on International Trade Development Scholarship and the Leadership Council on Diversity Scholarship. Victor was invited to join the Woolsack Honor Society and the Order of the Coif Honor Society.