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Azevedo Sette introduces a new partner in Belo Horizonte office

Azevedo Sette Advogados has boosted it Tax practice area with the promotion of one associate to partner. Tax lawyer Clarissa Cerqueira Viana Pereira joins the partnership in this January month. Clarissa has professional experience is renowned in areas such as Litigation,...

Article in Thomson Reuters Practical Law: Communications: regulation and outsourcing in Brazil: overview

A Q&A guide to communications regulation and outsourcing law in Brazil writed by Ricardo Barretto Ferreira, Paulo Brancher (partners) and Camila Taliberti Ribeiro da Silva (associate lawyer), Azevedo Sette Advogados. The Q&A gives a high level overview of...

Federal Court condemns Oi for sharing data without consent

In a Public Class Action filed in 2013 by the Public Prosecutor´s Office in Mato Grosso do Sul (MPF-MT), the 1st Federal Court of Campo Grande ordered Oi to pay BRL 1.5 million as compensation for collective moral damages, for sharing clients’ personal data with value-added...

Supreme Court rules that market restraints for national advertising in Pay-TV is unconstitutional

The Federal Supreme Court, in the extraordinary session of November 8, 2017, ruled that the Article 25 of Law 12.485/2011, known as the Pay-TV Law, is unconstitutional. Such provision forbids channels from broadcasting commercial advertising biased Brazilians public if hired...

Brazilian Superior Court of Justice recognizes as abusive the contractual clause that requires credit card customer to provide personal data to third parties

In a Public Class Action filed by the National Association of Citizenship and Consumer Defense -ANADEC against Bank HSBC, the Superior Court of Justice unanimously recognized that a standard form contract clause requiring customer to authorize the provision of his/her personal...

Youtuber is condemned to indemnify taxi driver for unauthorized disclosure of personal data as private revenge

The State Court of São Paulo condemned the Brazilian youtuber Kéfera Buchmann – currently followed by more than 10 million people – to pay BRL 25,000 in compensation for moral damages to a taxi driver due to the publication of a video on the Internet in which she exposes...

Azevedo Sette participated of Compliance & Regulatory Certification Training

Our Corporate M&A and Compliance departments participated of Compliance & Regulatory Certification Training conducted by FLI NET, a Brussels-based hub of a global network of over 75 independent, national law firms. The training is a full-day program intended for...

Acquisition and lease of rural properties by foreigners are subject to a new ordinance

Ordinance #88, published in the Brazilian Official Gazette on December 14, 2017, regulates the essential requirements and procedures for the acquisition and lease of rural properties by foreign residents in Brazil, foreign legal entities authorized to operate in Brazil and...
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