21-03-2016
Brazil’s current economic crisis has created many opportunities in the corporate / M&A arena. Not only are companies restructuring to achieve greater efficiencies but also greater flexibility on the sellers’ side (thereby resulting in lower multiples), the...20-03-2016
With hopes of modernizing and streamlining Brazilian judicial civil proceedings, the new Code of Civil Procedure (Law No. 13.105, of 16 March 2015) became effective on 18th March 2016. Brazilian society has long questioned the excessive lethargy of its judicial...02-03-2016
Today, March 2nd 2016, Provisional Measure No. 714, of March 1st 2016, was published and became effective. The main change introduced by this Provisional Measure is the increase, from 20% to 49%, of the authorized voting equity that a foreign company can hold in a...01-03-2016
On 2ndDecember 2015, the Brazilian government deposited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands the instrument of accession to the Convention abolishing the requirement of legalization for foreign public documents signed in Hague on 5th October 1961,...
