News & Recent Work

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...

The leading role of public bodies in privacy and data protection: history, fines, and agreements in Brazil

By Daniele Cavalcante, Lorena Pretti Serraglio, and Camilla Chicaroni | In the last article of the series, we went through the path of publication of the General Data Protection Act (Law No. 13,709/2018 – “LGPD”) in Brazil, covering the legislative path until the law...

Vale divests mining assets to J&F for US$1.2 billion

J&F Investimentos has turned to Lefosse to purchase manganese and iron ore mines from Brazilian mining giant Vale for US$1.2 billion. The seller turned to Madrona Advogados and Azevedo Sette Advogados. Madrona led the negotiations of the share purchase agreement working...

Azevedo Sette in the Chambers Brazil: Contentious 2022

We are very proud to announce that Azevedo Sette has been recognized in the second edition of Chambers Brazil: Contentious 2022 as reference in Compliance and International Trade / WTO. Our partners Isabel Franco and Luiz Eduardo Salles and Compliance and International Trade...
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