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Following global trends of climate litigation against governments evolving to litigation against private entities, a new lawsuit recently filed in Brazil is an interesting development in the country.

Tal tese não foi acolhida nos juízos de primeira e de segunda instâncias, tendo sido confirmada a obrigação da petroleira de pagar a referida multa.

In a decision published on August 8, 2018, the 1st Panel of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) unanimously recognized the right of a company under judicial reorganization to participate in a bidding

O número de ações civis públicas propostas pelo Ibama contra empresas responsáveis por danos ambientais deverá aumentar após uma mudança ...

O instituto da desconsideração da personalidade jurídica tem por objetivo estender os efeitos de certas e determinadas obrigações aos bens particulares dos administradores ou sócios da pessoa jurídica.

Last Friday, the judgment of the Action Against the Violation of Constitutional Fundamental Right No. 501 was concluded, although the content of the judgement has not yet been made available.

The Rio de Janeiro State Court ("TJRJ") issued Notice No. 53/2020, published in the Official Gazette on June 8, 2020, extending the deadline for the registration of legal...

The CNT argued that only the Supplementary Law would be capable of governing the "tax liability" issue, strictly abiding by the Federal Constitution of 1988.

O STJ concluiu nesta quarta-feira, dia 14, o julgamento dos Recursos Especiais nº 1.896.678 e 1.958.265, que questionavam se o ICMS devido na Substituição Tributária (ICMS-ST)...

Em breve o Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) deverá iniciar os trabalhos judiciários de 2023, após o fim do recesso na Corte que se encerrará em 31/01/2023.

On March 19, 2024, Adhesion Transaction Notice No. 01/2024 ("Zero Litigation Program 2024" or the "Program") was published, paving the way for tax settlements between taxpayers and the Brazilian Federal Revenue.

Under the presidency of Justice Luiz Fux, sworn in on 9/10/2020, the Supreme Court (STF) released the Full Bench Trial Schedule, which will be held by videoconference between September and December 2020.

Just months after we discussed a recent climate lawsuit filed in Brazil against a rural landowner due to alleged illegal deforestation in the Amazon, a new chapter in Brazilian climate litigation unfolds and reinforces the trend of climate change lawsuits against public and private entities.

Tribunal consolidou os parâmetros para o uso de meios executivos atípicos na cobrança de dívidas, como apreensão de passaporte, suspensão da CNH e bloqueio de cartões

It may not seem like it, but one of the most complex tasks assigned to the legal departments of large companies is the management of lawsuits, and not the lawsuits themselves.

Jurisdiction clauses are, in general, a very common contractual provision.

A Arguição de Descumprimento de Preceito Fundamental (ADPF) – a ADPF 323, foi acolhida pelo STF para declarar inconstitucional a interpretação jurisprudencial conferida pelo TST quanto à aplicação...

In November 2004 the ship Vicuña had a violent explosion while unloading methanol at the Port of Paranaguá, at the flammable products terminal.