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The Legal 500: TMT Comparative Guide

The senior partner and lead of TMT - Telecommunications, Media and Technology team at Azevedo Sette Advogados, Ricardo Barretto Ferreira is the exclusive author of Brazil Chapter in the "The Legal 500: TMT Comparative Guide" with the contribution of Danielle Cavalcante, Juliana...

5G and Aviation Safety in Brazil

The availability of mobile telephony services with the 5th generation (5G) technological standard in several countries, which will undoubtedly bring significant advances for the population and for the most diverse fronts of the economy, raised, on the other hand, concerns on...

ANATEL measures to mitigate abusive telemarketing practice in Brazil

According to the National Telecommunications Agency (“ANATEL”), the largest number of unwanted advertising calls made in the world occurs in Brazil. This fact was also revealed by Truecaller, a Swedish company that provides a caller ID and spam blocking application with...

Foreign tax credit under American new legislation and Brazil’s convergence towards OECD guidelines

On December 28, 2021, the American Treasury Department released final regulations (TD 9959, Final Regulations) regarding foreign tax credit (FTC) to be offset in the USA. In a nutshell, the legislation under which the tax was paid abroad must be reasonably similar to US...

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...

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...

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...
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