The court-supervised reorganization of corporations introduced by Law 11101/05 (the Brazilian Reorganization and Bankruptcy Law - "LRF" in the Portuguese acronym) arose as one of the changes needed to lower credit risk and achieve greater reductions in interests accrued on financial loans.

In the brink of an important round of bids for port terminals in the cities of Santos and Belém - the first to take place after the enactment of the new port law - , the Brazilian National Agency of Waterway Transportation (ANTAQ) has issued Resolution Nº 3.093-ANTAQ, of October 8, 2013.

Violations against the assets that comprise the tangible property of a legal entity are easily perceptible. They are condemned and prohibited by several laws of different nature.

The recall in Brazil is the process by which the manufacturer or service provider has the obligation to recall any product or service which may pose any risk to the safety or health.

As a general rule, no minimum corporate capital is legally required for a limited liability company.

On 03 June, 2014 the Normative Instruction N.º 1,470/14 ("Act"), issued by the Brazilian Federal Revenue became effective.

Adoption is a formal legal act in which, under the legal requirements, someone establishes a fictitious filiation relationship, irrespective of blood or similar kinship, with a person who is usually strange to them, by bringing such person to their family as a son/daughter.

As FIFA's Soccer World Cup approaches, Brazilian authorities adapt and prepare to receive the expected public for the event.

Brazil is a key player in the multilateral trade negotiations and disputes.

Over the past two decades, the Brazilian oil industry had a significant development, mostly due to the extraction of oil from the pre-salt layer in the past years.

Since the enactment of Federal Law n. 11.101/05 (the so-called Brazilian Bankruptcy Act), some very important issues have been debated, most of them related to circumstances surrounding judicial recovery proceedings, which by far is the most important remedy brought by said statute.

Due to the increased requests for Court-Supervised Reorganization, especially those involving multinational companies (OGX, OSX, Parmalat, etc.) there is an escalating search for new mechanisms that enable a more effective recovery of credits and reorganization of financially-distressed companies.

The discussion on the possibility of breaking the bank secrecy has been giving rise to great controversy in Brazil and worldwide, in view of the rules that protect intimacy and privacy as well as the impact, many times negative, of the disclosure of financial transactions on the personal life of individuals and the competition among the companies.

According to Brazilian law, the dividends distributed to the shareholders are exempt from income taxes.

The Ministry of Labor [MTE] in Brazil has an extraordinary mechanism to punish companies that subject employees to degrading work conditions or the so-called slave-like work conditions.

Nowadays there is no legal definition or regulation about the outsourcing in Brazil. The only regulation about this issue is made by the labor courts.

The consumer's concern with the food safety is a widely debated topic in social media nowadays.

There has been an increasing interest about the Brazilian laws providing for data protection in the insurance market.

Data protection has undoubtedly been a concern for individuals and companies for some time now, but the apprehension on this subject has certainly increased in the past years and, more recently, driven by the scandal of global spying program of the US security agency (NSA) disclosed by former analyst Edward Snowden in June, 2013.

In Brazil, there are two categories of ports: private use terminals ("TUPs") and public ports (also known as ''organized ports'').