Creditors who do business with a company that had its reorganization petition granted must have priority over the other creditors if the reorganization turns out to be infeasible.

On December 8, 2015, law No. 13,202 was published, as a result of the conversion of Provisional Measure No. 685/2015 into law.

In the last years, the Brazilian government enacted several legal statutes that fostered the creation of a new environment of fight against corruption.

To be effective in Brazil, arbitral awards rendered abroad – deemed by our legal system as foreign awards – must be recognized by the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) according to the procedure set forth in Resolution No. 9/2005.

The Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro approved the Draft Law No. 1046 of 10 December 10, 2015, which aims to establish, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Rate of Environmental Control, Monitoring and Inspection...

We are at your disposal to present the legal grounds we hold exist to challenge these impositions in judicial courts.

Resolution RDC No. 40/2015 of the Brazilian health surveillance agency (ANVISA), published in the federal gazette (DOU) on August 27, 2015, introduced important changes to the record (cadastro) of health products...

Em 29.12.2015, foram publicadas no Diário Oficial do Estado do Rio de Janeiro diversas alterações à legislação tributária, principalmente em relação ao Imposto sobre Operações Relativas à Circulação de Mercadorias e Serviços e ao Imposto sobre a Transmissão Causa Mortis e Doação de Quaisquer Bens ou Direitos, além da instituição da Taxa Única de Serviços Tributários da Receita Estadual.

The new Code of Civil Procedure ('New CPC') introduced some innovations to Brazil's procedural system. One of them is the mandatory conciliation or mediation conference set out in article 334 of the New CPC.