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Impacts of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in Brazilian companies

By Paulo Brancher (partner) and Camila Taliberti (associate) The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR), approved in April 2016, will enter into force on May 25th, 2018 and will change the legal reality of companies that process personal data within...

50 years Azevedo Sette Advogados

On this 27th November, we are celebrating 50 years of history, with our ethics and professional excellence guiding us in every aspect of our legal practice. Founded in 1967 as a small law firm in Belo Horizonte, , we grew to 6 units (Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Goiânia, Rio...

Developments of Internet of Things in Brazil

By Ricardo Barretto Ferreira, Camila Taliberti and Vitor Koketu da Cunha In 1960, computers performed around four thousand calculations per second, weighed tons and would cost today USD 1.5 million. Nowadays, a basic smartphone accessible to a significant part of the...

The right to not forget freedom of speech

*By Camila Taliberti and Paulo Brancher In the recent years, there have proliferated cases before Brazilian and foreign courts where a certain person claims for the removal, de-indexation or non-disclosure of information about oneself in Google’s research results,...

New Brazilian tax obligation: The Country by Country Report. The BEPS initiative in Brazil.

*Leandra Guimarães and Luiza Vidal From 2017 (regarding the fiscal year of 2016) on, all legal entities resident in Brazil for tax purposes which are members of multinational enterprise (MNE) groups must be aware of a new tax obligation. It consists of the Country by...

Lessons from WannaCry cyberattack

By Camila Taliberti and Paulo Brancher On May 12, 2017, what has been considered the largest cyberattack in history occurred, reaching thousands of citizens, companies and public entities in more than 150 countries, including Brazil. The attack was conducted through a...

Software Protection in Brazil – Register or Not?

*Eduardo Ludmer Brazil is home to a thriving software industry which generates more than US$ 60 billion per year. Brazilian developers are reckoned as creative and smart, responsible for coming up with great solutions for easing the hurdles of daily life faced by Brazilians...

The Right to be Lonely

By Eduardo Ludmer* Just like a person has the right to be single, a legal entity must have the right to choose whether to associate with others or to conduct its business alone. It took some time for Brazil to finally allow a legal entity to be a single shareholder of...
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