The US-Brazilian Tax Information Exchange Agreement recently executed on March 20th 2007 entered into force.

The so-called Brazilian Competition Defense System has been working hard to improve the Brazilian antitrust system and optimize both the analysis of highly complex merger review cases.

The opportunities for foreign companies or capital in the Brazilian healthcare sector have recently expanded as a result of the provisions of Law 13.097, dated January 19, 2015.

On March 16, 2015, the Secretariat of Foreign Trade (SECEX) of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC) initiated a new anti-dumping investigation in Brazil.

Decree nr. 8.263 has outlined a number of changes to the Tax Regulations governing financial operations/exchanges.

On June 29, 2007, Ms. Mariana Araujo, the head of the Secretariat of Economic Law (SDE), the antitrust agency in charge of investigating and prosecuting anticompetitive conducts, made a presentation to the Antitrust Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association (Sao Paulo Chapter) of SDE’s strategic working plan for the next four years.

In June and July 2013, the Secretariat of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade initiated three new antidumping investigations in Brazil.

The Secretariat of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade initiated two new anti-dumping investigations and one sunset review.

On June 30, 2014 ANAC opened Public Hearing nr. 13/2014 to discuss a revision of the current airport fees regulatory model.

Amongst other resolutions, the TCU has allowed the government the freedom to establish the tariff policy it deems appropriate to each case as long as the decision is technically and economically justified.

The National Immigration Council’s Normative Resolution No. 100 recently came into effect, establishing that requests for temporary visas for foreign professionals who intend to provide services involving technical assistance or the transfer of technology to Brazilian companies, without employment relationship.

A general guide on the Normative Resolution Nr. 99, which which regulates the granting of temporary work permits/visas for foreigners with an employment. agreement in Brazil

Considering that the bid's results confirm the minimum participation indicated above, Petrobras shall pay the amount of R$ 810 million for the signature bonus.

On June 2, ANEEL approved the opening of a public hearing to discuss and receive contributions from the market in Bidding Notice nr. 08/2015, relating to the 1st Reserve Energy Public Bidding Session of 2015.

The National Fund about Climate Change ("Climate Fund") was created by Law no. 12114, of December 9, 2009, and regulated by Decree no. 7343, of October 26, 2010, with the purpose of providing resources to support research and finance projects to mitigate climate change effects and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

On June 10th, 2013, the Brazilian Secretariat of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade initiated an anti-dumping investigation on the imports of tires for passenger vehicles from South Korea, Thailand, South Africa, Russia, Taiwan and Japan.

The Secretariat of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade has initiated four new antidumping investigations and one new sunset review.

Felsberg e Associados has assisted UK-based sports marketing company ‘Fast Track’ establish itself in Brazil.

Virtually all international airlines that fly to Brazil have been offered to sign Consent Decrees committing themselves to in-source their third party contractors’ employees.

The Chamber of Foreign Trade granted temporary reductions in the import duty rates applied to several products based on a Resolution of the Common Market Group of Mercosur.