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Brazil chapter: Telecom & Media

The senior partner and lead of TMT - Telecommunications, Media and Technology team at Azevedo Sette Advogados, Ricardo Barretto Ferreira is the exclusive author of the Brazil Chapter in "Lexology GTDT - Telecoms and Media" with the contribution of Sylvia Werdmüller von Elgg...

Licensing of Telecommunications Antennas in Brazil

In Brazil, Law No. 13,116/2015 (Antenna Law) stipulates the general rules relating to the process of licensing, installation, and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure, being the main legal provision dealing with the licensing of telecommunications antennas in the...

Provisional Measure changes the legal nature of the Brazilian Data Protection Authority

Today the President of the Republic published the Provisional Measure No. 1,124/2022 in order to change the nature of the Brazilian Data Protection Authority (“ANPD”), which until then, was only a body of the federal public administration with a transitory legal nature....

Brazilian Government reduces import tariffs by 10%

GECEX Resolution No 353/2022, published on May 24, established a temporary reduction of import tariffs by 10 percentage points for 87% of all products. The measure was unanimously approved in an extraordinary meeting of the Executive Management Committee of the Chamber of...

Telecoms Series | Neutral Networks and the Brazilian Market

In line with the world trend, Brazil has seen a growing demand for fast and reliable Internet connections. The relevance of telecommunications services, it is worth mentioning, became even more evident from the beginning of the Covid-19...

Data Protection & Cyber Security Law: Brazil

The Azevedo Sette’ TMT team, led by the senior partner Ricardo Barretto Ferreira, the Privacy and Data Protection coordinator, Lorena Pretti Serraglio, and the associates Camilla Lopes Chicaroni, Isabella da Penha Lopes Santana, Laís Litran Motta, and Carolina Simioni...
Infrastructure opportunities in the Brazilian Power Transmission and Hydrogen sectors

Infrastructure opportunities in the Brazilian Power Transmission and Hydrogen sectors

In the last week of March, the Congress received a proposal for a new law about the formal insertion of hydrogen as an energy source in the Brazilian matrix and setting forth guidelines for the green hydrogen. The bill received the number...

Higher compliance costs and more disputes expected under Brazil’s TP reform

Our associate and tax manager of Azevedo Sette’ Tax team, Hanna Lauar participates of the text: “We don’t have any regulation on the master and local file, so all of that will be new. I don’t believe companies are yet prepared. They will need to evaluate what the actual...
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