JUN
10
2015

R&W Insurance: a Useful Tool for Private Equity & Venture Capital Transactions

Guilherme Leporace and Bruno Haack Vilar

Largely used in the American and European markets, an interesting alternative to overcome deadlocks over collection devices and guarantees has recently been made available in Brazil by insurance companies: the representations and warranties (R&W) insurance.

JUN
1
2015

The Sino-Brazilian principles in a Latin American and BRICS context: The case for comparative public budgeting legal research

Gutemberg P. Lopes Jr.

A piece of the puzzle is put in place by the Sino-Brazilian Principles, a synthesis of Brazil‘s and China‘s core bilateral values, distilled from their legal systems and government-to-government agreements of the last forty years.

MAY
20
2015

Inquiries to CADE, legal certainty and transparency

Leonardo Peres da Rocha e Silva and Alessandro Pezzolo Giacaglia

Resolution No. 12 of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense regulating the process for inquiries to CADE.

MAY
8
2015

Conflict of Interests in Secondary Buyout Transactions

Ana Carolina Pimentel and Guilherme Leporace

Transactions like these are becoming more and more common in Brazil.

APR
22
2015

Never climate change lawyers were so needed

Caroline Dihl Prolo

The parties to the Climate Convention have decided to develop a new international climate agreement, to be signed by the end of 2015 in Paris.

APR
6
2015

Tax advantages of Brazilian Real Estate Investment Funds

Renata Maria Novotny Vallarelli, Guilherme Leporace and Juliana Zielinsky Yonenaga

With regard to certain classes of such assets, the FII, if properly structured, may provide relevant tax benefits, especially for investors who are natural persons.

APR
1
2015

Brazilian FIA-MAs: a New Option for Investments in Mid-Market Companies and Private Equity

Paulo Eduardo Penna and Juliana Carvalho de Azevedo

The declared purpose of the FIA-MA is to encourage investments in mid-market companies and foster new IPOs.

MAR
27
2015

BNDES requires the implementation of compliance programs as a condition to finance exporters

Luis Gustavo Miranda de Oliveira and Paulo Teixeira Fernandes

BNDES adopts measures aimed to intensify corruption combat among foreign officials according to the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions of OECD. One of the most relevant measure is that it is required that exporters set up compliance programs.

MAR
16
2015

Brazilian Anticorruption Law

Maria Fernanda Pecora Gédéon and Amanda Federico Lopes Fernandes

This law has come to fill a gap in brazilian legislation.

MAR
6
2015

Mediation and the Black Belt Lawyer

Andrea Maia, Juliana Loss de Andrade

The symbolism of the term "black belt’’ may lead us in the first place to its meaning in the martial arts field.

back to top