Legal News
18May 2017
The National Council for Advertising Self-Regulation (CONAR) added a new annex to the Brazilian Self-Regulating Advertising Code, the Exhibit V, which establishes specific rules for the advertisement of mobile internet...
18May 2017
Uber has been facing controversy decisions regarding Labor Courts in Brazil. On April 11th, the substitute judge Eduardo Rockenbach Pires, from the Labor Court of São Paulo, recognized the employment relationship between the company and the driver making them pay R$ 62.531,00...
18May 2017
In an enforcement action of legal precept against OI, the Brazilian Central Agency of Collection and Distribution (ECAD) obtained a favorable decision from the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), in relation to copyright´s collection in musical broadcast on the internet via...
23Apr 2017
Global Competition Litigation Review features an article by Luiz Eduardo Salles and Ingrid Bandeira Santos that clarifies about the propose of Brazilian competition authority of regulating procedures on access to documents to substantiate private antitrust...
03Apr 2017
Ana Paula Terra Caldeira and Luiza Elena Ribeiro Cardoso*
New rules issued by the Central Bank of Brazil (BACEN) simplify and modernize registration procedures in the foreign direct investment module (“RDE-IED”), which reduces costs and time, at the same time...
16Mar 2017
The new obligation to identify the equity interest chain until it reaches the final beneficiary has its initial term extended to July 1st, 2017
On May 9, 2016, the Brazilian Federal Revenue has published the Normative Instruction No. 1,634/2016, which established, among...
14Mar 2017
The Department of Business Registration and Integration – DREI revises its normative instruction to allow national or foreign legal entities to be holder of a Limited Liability Single Enterprise – EIRELI
DREI has amended, through the Normative Instruction #...
12Mar 2017
Annual Declaration of Brazilian Capital Abroad 2017
The Central Bank of Brazil (“BACEN”) is receiving the Annual Declaration of Brazilian Capital Abroad (Annual CBE) regarding the fiscal year of 2016.
This declaration must be submitted by any individual or corporate...