Following its strategy of growth and investment in talents to reinforce its team, Demarest Advogados welcomes its new Environmental and Competition Law attorneys.

We are pleased to announce that our M&A partner Paulo Coelho da Rocha was elected Chair of Lex Mundi.

Latest deals and transactions ...

Demarest acted as deal counsel assisting the parties involved on the preparation of the documentation of the offering, and negotiation of its terms and conditions.

On May 19, 2015, Demarest welcomed the most representative Basque Country companies engaged in business in Brazil in its São Paulo office.

The acquisition accelerates Legrand's expansion in Brazil, following the acquisition of SMS in 2011, in line with Legrand's strategy of targeted, self-financed acquisitions of small and mid-size companies with leading market positions.

Accession by Chiltern - Pesquisa Clinica Ltda. ("Chiltern Brazil") to the Intercreditor Agreement entered into in connection with a term loan facility pursuant to the terms of a Senior Facilities Agreement granted to parent Chiltern International Ltd.

Two important legal developments have been taking place in Brazil on the financing front. Both have been long-lasting requirements of the market in the country, which little by little seems to be overcoming a number of relevant legal issues which have historically hampered credit transactions.

Demarest assisted Dayco Group on the due-diligence and the negotiation of the deal with the sellers.

Demarest Advogados has advised the cooperative bank Banco Cooperativo do Brasil S/A in setting up a long-standing partnership with the US gigantic electronic payment acquirer company First Data, in a deal that closed on January 9, 2014.

Please find below information about a deal closed on Friday (August 31) and publicly announced today (September 5):

There are supply agreements in which the buyer, trying to protect itself, inserts a clause providing that in case supplier sells the same product to a third party to prices lower than the ones agreed in the supply agreement, supplier shall offer to buyer the lower price practiced with third parties.

After years of poor government management, the price to pay is huge.

A worker carrying out his activities outside Brazil, with exclusive employment relationship with foreign company, is no longer considered as 'insured employee' before the Brazilian Social Security.

Supplementary Law no. 110 published on 6/30/2001 established two new social contributions, one of them payable by employers in case of termination without cause at the rate of 10% of total amount

On May 1, the FBI Director named the former assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division, Joseph M. Demarest, Jr., to the newly established position of associate executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch.

As a result, the existing FIC-FIPs would have to be transformed into FIPs until August 30, 2017.

There are 2 (two) basic institutional ways to organize a nonprofit organization under the Brazilian legislation: nonprofit association or private foundation.

The social security inspections are currently creating criteria absent of the Brazilian profit sharing law (n°10.101/2000) to criticize the plans of several companies ..

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.