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 segment. The decision of Justice Luis Felipe Salomão solved the case after split decision between Justice Marco Buzzi and

On 07.12.2016 was published the Law No. 13,311/2016 establishing general rules for the occupation and use of urban public area for urban facilities like kiosks, trailers, fairs and newsagents. ​ Since the enactment of Law, municipalities are authorized to concede grants for public space use for those kinds of urban

On 06.15.2016, it was published the Law No. 13,295/2016, which resulted from the conversion of the Provisional Measure No. 707/2015, and extends the deadline to register with the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) until 12.31.2017. ​ Originally, the aforementioned Provisional Measure defined rules and deadlines for refinancing debts of farmers and

The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (“CADE”) published on May 25, 2016 the Antitrust Leniency Program Guidelines (“Guidelines”) aim to consolidate the best practices and procedures adopted by the Brazilian antitrust agency for the negotiation of Antitrust Leniency Agreements (“Leniency Agreements”)  and to align them with international standards. Based on Law No. 12.529/2011 and CADE's Internal

Brazil has a special and temporary regime for monetary and tax regulation in order to regularize unreported foreign assets held by individuals and legal entities resident or domiciled in Brazil. Such regime – called RERCT in Portuguese – was created by Federal Law No. 13,254/2016 and detailed by the Normative

The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) released for public consultation a draft resolution which defines the concept of associative contracts and provides the cases of a notification to the antitrust authority according to item IV, article 90 of the Federal Law 12.529/2011 (“Antitrust Law”). The associative contracts are provided

On 05.12.2016, it was published the Decree n. 8772/2016 ("Decree"), that regulates Law No 13.123/2015 ("Act"), which provides for access to genetic resources, the protection and access to associated traditional knowledge and the sharing of benefits for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. ​ The Regulation, in similarity to the