On May 26, 2016, the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) launched Leniency Guidelines and amended the leniency provisions included in its Internal Rules...

No último dia 05 de abril, foi sancionada a Lei nº 14.133/2021, já amplamente conhecida como "Nova Lei de Licitações".

A Terceira Turma do Tribunal Regional Federal de 4ª Região (TRF4), corte responsável pelo julgamento em segunda instância de incidentes cíveis da Operação Lava Jato, decidiu em 22/08/2017 que o Ministério Público Federal ...

On August 1, 2013, in response to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s requirement that Brazil comply with the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, Brazil enacted the "Lei Anticorrupção" or Law #12.846.

The Anti-Corruption Law, which was approved in August 2013 and became effective at the end of January 2014, brought about significant changes regarding the relationship between private businesses and government employees.

Imagine you are a compliance officer for a multinational company with securities listed on a U.S. stock market.

The Central Bank of Brazil published a resolution in May, requiring all institutions that operate under its guidelines to make available to any user an independent channel for whistleblowing...

Brazilian authorities see with restrictions the use of virtual currencies like the bitcoin. The main concern of the Brazilian Government at this moment is that this type of instrument be used in connection with pyramid financial schemes.

The Law 13.964/19, recently published in the Brazilian Official Gazette on December 24, 2019, aimed, mainly, pursuant its 1st article, to improve criminal and criminal procedural law

In July, 2018, the Ministry of Transparency and Comptroller General of the Federal Union ("CGU") issued Ordinance No. 1,970 to amend provisions of Ordinance CGU No. 910 ...

On January 29th, 2014, Law nº. 12,846/2013, better known as the "Anti-Corruption Law", came into effect.

There has been an increasing trend in the sending of correspondence and unlawful charges to companies and individuals that are holders of trademarks filed or registered at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office - BPTO.

The concealment of the real purchaser in the import operation, by means of fraud or simulation, is subject to several penalties set forth in the Brazilian legislation.

The creation of Law 12.846/2013, known as Anti-Corruption Law, was an undeniably important event in Brazilian history. Since its publication, great part of the companies, entrepreneurs and executives are trying to adapt to the new corporate reality introduced by said law, which aims at protecting national and foreign public administration, objectively attributing civil liability to legal entities.

A advogada da área de Direito Penal Empresarial, Juliane Mendonça, teve sua dissertação de Mestrado aprovada na Escola de Direito de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas.

The Brazilian Senate’s Legislative Bill Nº 236/2012 which introduces the reform of the Penal Code was sent for analysis by a temporary committee of senators created for such purpose.

Casos em que o Acordo de Não Persecução Penal (ANPP) for aplicável, o Ministério Público precisa se manifestar sobre essa possibilidade, mesmo durante a fase de recurso...

The settlement papers detail a scheme in which senior Petrobras executives inflated the cost of infrastructure projects by deliberately overpaying its largest contractors.

O Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo pretende implantar, ainda este ano, ao menos duas varas especializadas em crimes tributários (Lei 8.137/90), licitatórios (Lei 9.666/93), de lavagem de dinheiro (Lei 9.613/98)...

Confira abaixo o 11º episódio do KLA Conversa. Neste episódio especial, gravado em nosso escritório após a reforma estrutural, abordamos o dia a dia dos advogados, como a profissão se modernizou e muito mais.