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The Administrative Council of Economic Defense (“CADE”) held on October 16 and 30, 2019 its 147th and 148th trials. Those were the first trials conducted by the newly inducted Commissioners ...

On November 5, 2019 the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice (“STJ”) decided a case that not only outlined rural producers’ judicial recovery, but also the course of credit market in ...

The Brazilian President has decided to issue a Provisional Measure No. 863/2018 (“MP”) to modify some important provisions of the Brazilian Aeronautical Code (“CBA”). The MP was published in the ...

Brazil has enacted a law about sports betting, which was published on December 13, 2018. Sport bets were already present in Brazilians routine, gaining prominence in the FIFA World Cup ...

The Administrative Council of Economic Defense (CADE) published last Wednesday (September 5), Resolution No. 21/2018 about the publicity of documents and information of administrative procedure, to promote antitrust damages actions ...

The privacy and commercial use of personal data have been trending topics since recent incidents involving data breach, leakage and cyber attacks. On August 14, 2018, the Brazilian Data Protection ...

On Friday 12th, the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – CVM) issued Circular Letter No. 1/2018, clarifying that cryptocurrencies cannot be classified as financial assets, according to article 2, subsection V, ...

The Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) opens a public consultation on arbitration clauses under the concession agreements for the exploration and production of oil and ...

The Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, called Apostille Convention (“Convention”), promulgated by Decree No. 8,660/2016, entered into force on August 14, 2016. The Convention was ...

The Central Bank of Brazil (“BACEN”) published on June 16, 2016 the Circular No. 3,795 (“Circular”), to consolidate the regulations regarding the statement of the Census of Foreign Capital, created ...