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BM&A Review 29 | April - September 2009

- M&A Transactions increase in 2009 - CVM considers new proxy rules - Article 745-A of the code of civil procedure and execution of judgment debts - Law 11.941/2009: A new definition of "Related Company" - Major Changes coming in the regulations on securities issues and trading - The superior court of justice and the tax liability of shareholders and managers

Áreas de atuação:
Corporate | Finance and Capital Markets | Litigation and Conflict Resolution | Tax

BM&A Review 28 | January - March 2009

- The growing importance of intellectual property in mergers and acquisitions
- Small hydroelectric stations: changes in the requirements for authorization to operate
- Corporate governance rules strengthened by the “new 202”
- Vacation time converted into money: taxable or not?
- The debate over social security contributions on pay in lieu of notice
- Alternatives for employers in times of economic crisis
- Considerations on the publication of financial statements by large companies

BM&A Review 27 | October December 2008

-Decisions by the superior tribunal of justice create important precedents for banks
-CVM decides tag-along rights do not apply in merger transactions
-Real estate investment funds: a powerful fund-raising tool
-The controversy over bank financing certificates
-Share buy-backs and reciprocal holdings
-Inconsistency in the application of the recent reforms to the code of civil procedure
-Foreign investment in limited companies: is government authorization required?
-BM&A opens new tax and intellectual property consulting firms
-Federal treasury publishes new interpretation on transfer pricing rules

Áreas de atuação:
Corporate | Finance and Capital Markets | Litigation and Conflict Resolution | Real Estate

BM&A Review 26 | July September 2008

-New tax legislation requires caution in transactions subject to transfer pricing rules
-The debate over foreign ownership of rural property
- BM&A moves to new premises in São Paulo and opens an office in Belo Horizonte
- Anvisa issues regulations on foreign investment in the area of family planning
-Changes in taxation in the alcohol production chain
-Service tax on copyright assignments is unconstitutional
-Brazilian federal revenue service decides purchases of off-the-shelf software from foreign suppliers are not subject to withholding tax and cide
-Mediation: upcoming changes in conflict resolution
-CVM issues new rules to speed up enforcement proceedings
-Bovespa mais: a new listing segment on the são paulo stock exchange

Áreas de atuação:
Corporate | Environmental Law | Finance and Capital Markets | Real Estate | Tax

BM&A Review 25 | January June 2008

-Law 11.638/07: bringing Brazil into the context of international accounting practices
-New rules for financial statements published by large companies
-Arbitration and execution proceedings based on extrajudicial title
-CODIM issues guidelines on guidance
-Federal revenue secretariat revokes interpretive ruling on contract manufacturing
-Poison Pills: an instrument of good corporate governance?
-Bovespa ipo is named “deal of the year 2007”
-New measures on deforestation and “legal reserves”

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Elaine de Paula Palmer | Fabiana Fagundes | Francisco Antunes Maciel Müssnich | Pedro Lehmann Baracuí

Áreas de atuação:
Corporate | Environmental Law | Litigation and Conflict Resolution

BM&A Review 24 | November December 2007

-Antenor Madruga is BM&A’s New Partner in Brasília
-Value-Added Tax on Imported Oil Industry Goods
-The Supreme Federal Tribunal and the “General Repercussion” Requirement
-The controversy over the time period for payment of money judgments
-BM&A wins 2007 Client Choice Award
-Brasken and Mexico’s Televisa Group win awards for good corporate governance
-Four new partners at BM&A
-The Minimum Capital Required for Insurance Companies
-CADE and Executives’ Liability for Competition Offences

Áreas de atuação:
Competition and International Trade | Corporate | Litigation and Conflict Resolution | Tax

BM&A Review 23 | July October 2007

-Prospects for new CVM chairwoman
-Conflicts of interest in corporate reorganizations
-Opening the re-insurance market in Brazil
-Changes in social security legislation require companies to adapt
-Second edition of the Affinitas award for corporate governance in latin america to be held in november
-Appeals council for the national financial system admits reformatio in pejus
-Settlements in cartel investigations: a natural evolution
-The alliance between the courts and technology

Áreas de atuação:
Finance and Capital Markets | Competition and International Trade | Corporate | Employment, Labor and Pension Law | Litigation and Conflict Resolution

BM&A Review 22 | March June 2007

-Changes in civil procedure and judicial culture affect business practices
-CVM issues new rules on coercive fines
-Drafting contracts to take advantage of the new rules governing execution proceedings
-A new position on the requirement to offer security for contested tax assessments in administrative appeals
-Affinitas takes part in INTA conference
-CVM changes investment fund regulations
-Amendment 3 and the social security authority’s power to determine employment status
-Abrasca launches manual for control and disclsoure of material information
-The superior court of justice examines the legality of regulations issued by the national department of mineral production

Áreas de atuação:
Administrative Law and Concessions | Corporate | Employment, Labor and Pension Law | Litigation and Conflict Resolution

BM&A Review 21 | January February 2007

-Real estate market on the rise brings new possibilities for investments
-Amendments proposed by the CVM for private equity funds and investment funds in emerging companies
-Integrated circuit topographies: new intellectual protection
-GMO: changes in plantations in conservation unit buffer zones
-The Supreme Federal Court and prior administrative appeal bonds
-Long awaited regulations on the registration of tainted capital
-CVM: information on portfolios
-Affinitas Energy Committee prepares bilingual publication
-BM&A participates in a series of lectures about real estate investments in Brazil

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Camila Goldberg Cavalcanti | Elaine de Paula Palmer | Luciana Rainho Marsal | Christiane Scabell Höhn

BM&A Review 20 | November December 2006

-Mergers and Acquisitions growth to continue in 2007
-New amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure seek to hasten execution actions
-Shareholding dispersion: possible matters to be addressed in Brazil
-Reflexes of the new microand small-company regimen on labor relationships
-Regulation applicable to a request for revision by the Council of Appeals of the National Finance System
-New developments in the matter of legal rates of interest in arrears

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Camila Goldberg Cavalcanti | Luiz Fernando Fraga | Mauro Teixeira Sampaio | Gisela Sampaio da Cruz | Luiz Marcelo Figueiras de Góis

Áreas de atuação:
Finance and Capital Markets | Corporate | Employment, Labor and Pension Law | Litigation and Conflict Resolution

BM&A Review 19 | September October 2006

-Managing labor relations makes planning a priority
-CVM enacts new instruction dealing with stock loans
-New CRSFN ordinance regarding review of court decisions
-The Supreme Federal Court denies injunctions against a new model in power sector
-Tax tendencies of new composition of Supreme Federal Court
-Importance of estate planning in family-run companies
-Affinitas awards latin american companies for corporate governance excellence
-The Superior Court of Justice upholds opinion on the possibility of a mixed corporation using arbitration

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Henrique Vargas Gama Beloch | Luiz Felipe Tenório da Veiga | Octávio Fragata Martins de Barros | Luís Sérgio Soares Mamari Filho

Áreas de atuação:
Administrative Law and Concessions | Corporate | Employment, Labor and Pension Law | Litigation and Conflict Resolution

BM&A Review 18 | July August 2006

-Sports and entertainment industries offer new business opportunities
-Taking stock of the first year of the New Company Rehabilitation and Bankruptcy Law
-New Currency Exchange Package: the new amendments introduced by provisional measure no. 315/06
-CADE’s new position on the acquisition of minority stockholding being a monopolistic act
-STF confirms the application of the CDC to financial institutions
-Approval of the opinion of The Federal Attorney General may reduce independence of regulatory agencies

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Alvaro Amaral de França Couto Palma de Jorge | Amir Achcar Bocayuva Cunha | Barbara Rosenberg | Camila Goldberg Cavalcanti | Vitor Butruce

Áreas de atuação:
Administrative Law and Concessions | Finance and Capital Markets | Competition and International Trade | Corporate | Litigation and Conflict Resolution

BM&A Review 17 | May June 2006

-An analysis of the judgment rule within the Brazilian corporate environment
-Amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure attempt to hasten court procedures
-Tenth anniversary of the Brazilian Arbitration Act
-Trust assignment of investment fund quotas
– new form of guarantee for real estate lease agreements
-Marker system: new rules for the antitrust leniency program
-Superior Court of Justice finds against the sentencing for environmental moral damages

Áreas de atuação:
Administrative Law and Concessions | Competition and International Trade | Corporate | Litigation and Conflict Resolution

BM&A Review 16 | March April 2006

-New Partner in the Economic Law Department
-The new lawthat enables public-forest concessions
-Amendment to the code of civil procedure: the risks of “borrowed decisions”
-Transmission of electricity: controversal tax aspects
-CVM changes the criteria for the grantal of operating licenses to FMIEE, FIP and FIDC
-Moral harassment in employment relations

Áreas de atuação:
Administrative Law and Concessions | Competition and International Trade | Employment, Labor and Pension Law | Litigation and Conflict Resolution | Tax

BM&A Review 15 | January February 2006

-An arbitration clause may reduce deadline to apply for company rehabilitation plan
-Employers paying for professional continuing education courses
-Law nº 11.196/05 and the amendments to the bidding and concession laws
-Amendment to the code of civil procedure quickens compliance with award-granting decisions
-Caselaw`s general acceptance regarding the monthly capitalization of interest rates on a monthly basis for banking contracts
-Protection of a highly renowned trademark

Áreas de atuação:
Administrative Law and Concessions | Finance and Capital Markets | Employment, Labor and Pension Law | Intellectual Property | Litigation and Conflict Resolution

BM&A Review 14 | November December 2005

-STF declares Unconstitutionality of PIS/COFINS Assessments on Income
-Trade Remedy proceedings in the U.S.: How Brazilian Exporters can overcome this Barrier
-The new Anbid Code and the Rising Maturity Level of Brazilian Capital Market
-CVM`s Views on Securities Trading Via the Internet and/or Securities Issued and Traded Abroad -Appointment of a Member of the Board of Directors of Publicly-Held Companies by Non-Controlling Shareholders
-Creation of Virtual Libraries Generates Disputes

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Amir Achcar Bocayuva Cunha | Atademes Branco Pereira | Camila Goldberg Cavalcanti | Silvania Conceição Tognetti

Áreas de atuação:
Corporate | Finance and Capital Markets | Intellectual Property | Tax

BM&A Review 13 | September October 2005

-Barbosa, Müssnich & Aragão Advogados is awarded DCI Prize
-Recent changes in the rules pertaining to securities offerings in the United States – the Quiet Period becomes more flexible
-The reach of the power of surveillance over invested companies
-Limited liability individual businessman
-Can the government be harming the public interest?
-Consortiums and labor relationships: The CVM authorizes online adherence

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Alex Schatkin Cukier | Alexandre Couto Silva | Luiz Felipe Tenório da Veiga | Mauro Teixeira Sampaio

Áreas de atuação:
Corporate | Employment, Labor and Pension Law

BM&A Review 12 | July August 2005

-Brazil`s new national federal revenue service presents both benefits and problems
-Alcohol and drug use prevention policies require careful implementation
- Competition Liabilites: Acquiring problems
- The supreme federal court may break the postal service`s monopoly
-Securization: an opportunity for sports
-New legislation relaxes the rules governing associations under the civil code

Áreas de atuação:
Administrative Law and Concessions | Competition and International Trade | Employment, Labor and Pension Law | Intellectual Property | Tax

BM&A Review 11 | May June 2005

-Luiz Antonio Campos becomes a partner of Barbosa, Müssnich & Aragão
-Biosafety Law regulates the use of genetically modified organisms
-The impact of the Doha Round on brazilian companies
-STF expected to declare unconstitutionality of increased PIS and COFINS calculation basis instituted by Law no. 9718/98
-Arbitration and the PPPs
-Superior Labor Court approves e-mail monitoring
-Union reform and the effects thereof on employment relations

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Luiz Antonio de Sampaio Campos | Luiz Felipe Tenório da Veiga | Luiza Ferreira Sampaio de Lacerda | Octávio Fragata Martins de Barros

Áreas de atuação:
Corporate | Litigation and Conflict Resolution | Tax

BM&A Review 10 | March April 2005

-Federal Supreme Court confirms Contitutionality of Petroleum Law
-The Foreign Exchange Market and New Export Rules
-Fifteen years of doubt as to the reach of the Consumer Protection Code
-Supplementary Law 118/05 strengthens Tax Credit Collection Tools
-Stricter Criminal Provisions in the New Bankruptcy Law
-Additional Aspects of the Discussion on the New Interpretation of Cade with Regard to the Billings Criteria

BM&A Review 9 | January February 2005

-Brazilian PPPs, at last
-New Rules for Home Financing
-Taxing Foreign Investments’ Exchange Variations
-The Company Rehabilitation and Bankruptcy Law is Placed in Practice
-Cade Changes Revenue Criteria for Filing of Acts of Concentration
-The Impact of the Most Recent Transformations in the Labor Courts

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Alexandre Tadeu Seguim | Alvaro Amaral de França Couto Palma de Jorge | Luiz Felipe Tenório da Veiga | Gabriela Ribeiro Nolasco | Cibelle Linero Goldfarb

Áreas de atuação:
Competition and International Trade | Corporate | Employment, Labor and Pension Law | Litigation and Conflict Resolution | Tax

BM&A Review 8 | November December 2004

-CADE and review of concentration acts involving financial institutions
-Anatel submits proposed regulations on the use of “reversionary” property
-The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, risk management and officers’ and directors’ liabilities
-Reform of the Judicial System: in search of swift and efficient justice
-Non-competition clauses and their effects in employment relations
-Federal revenue service issues regulations on taxation of real estate developers’ segregated property

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Alvaro Amaral de França Couto Palma de Jorge | Cristiana Moreira | Luiz Felipe Tenório da Veiga | Patrícia Felix Tassara

BM&A Review 7 | September October 2004

-Banks take the lead in reducing labor liabilities
-Tax planning: international treaty vs internal law
-Signs of renewal in brazilian law on security interests
-Limited liability companies: quotaholders’ agreements can mitigate the excesses of the new civil code
-Digital signature in currency exchange contracts and government contracting
-The future of the brazilian oil industry on the supreme federal court’s docket

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Alvaro Amaral de França Couto Palma de Jorge | Bruno Lewicki | Pedro Oliveira da Costa | Luís Sérgio Soares Mamari Filho

Áreas de atuação:
Administrative Law and Concessions | Intellectual Property | Litigation and Conflict Resolution | Research

BM&A Review 6 | July August 2004

-New Incentives for Raising Funds Abroad
-The Company Rehabilitation Law and its Impact on Financial Transactions
-Judicial Executions: Innovations in Sight Promise More Speed and Efficiency
-Trusts: Increasing Assimilation by Brazilian Law
-Is the Condominium and Real Estate Development Law in Force?
-The Federal Supreme Court Renews its Discussion on the Intangibility of Vested Rights CVM Issues New Instruction on Investment Funds

Áreas de atuação:
Corporate | Finance and Capital Markets | Litigation and Conflict Resolution | Real Estate

BM&A Review 5 | May June 2004

-Real Estate law: news in sight with bill no. 3,065/2004
-Moral Damages: statute of limitations deadline in labor lawsuits
-Classifying companies: conceptual developments and difficulties
-The new model for the power sector
-Superior Court of Justice: new precedents consolidate contracts caselaw The sale of genetically modified foods and the right to information
-Arbitration and Public Law entities

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Alvaro Amaral de França Couto Palma de Jorge | Christine Fischer Krauss | Luiz Felipe Tenório da Veiga | Christiane Scabell Höhn | Luís Sérgio Soares Mamari Filho

Áreas de atuação:
Administrative Law and Concessions | Corporate | Employment, Labor and Pension Law | Real Estate

BM&A Review 4 | March April 2004

-The new bankruptcy law and the risk of increased shareholder withdrawls from companies in rehabilitation
-New accounting rules emphasize the importance of protection mechanisms for intellectual property
-Foreign participation in companies under the 2002 Civil Code: new and old issues
-Proinfa is put into practice Pedro Batista Martins, arbitration specialist, joins BM&A
-CRSFN and CVM decide on conflicts of interests
-Controversial aspects of the noncumulative PIS/ COFINS credit

Áreas de atuação:
Corporate | Litigation and Conflict Resolution | Tax

BM&A Review 3 | January February 2004

-Syndicated urban operations: a new investment opportunity -CVM amends rules governing public securities offerings
-Paulo Cezar Aragão, Francisco Müssnich and Pedro Lanna elected “World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers”
-Listed companies: financial statements are now closer to international standards
-Brazilian Superior Tribunal of Justice settles precedents on interruption of essential services
-Bill paves the way for public-private partnerships
-New controversial tax on imported goods and services
-Iberian-American alliance
-New Civil Code places limit on employment liability

Áreas de atuação:
Administrative Law and Concessions | Corporate | Litigation and Conflict Resolution | Tax

BM&A Review 2 | November December 2003

-Arbitration: News and Outlook
-Solving environmental liabilities by declaring
-Infringements and executing: an adjustment of conduct accord
-Foreign investment in Brazil through the allocation of resources
-Economic growth and anti-trust
-The ISS tax and complementary Law 116/03
-Nwe area leaders appointed
-Reforming the regulatory agencies companies set up by married couples and the New Civil Code

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Alvaro Amaral de França Couto Palma de Jorge | Bruno Lewicki | Gabriel Lacerda Troianelli | Luís Sérgio Soares Mamari Filho

Áreas de atuação:
Administrative Law and Concessions | Corporate | Research | Tax

BM&A Review 1 | August September 2003

-CVM nº 391/03
-Stock option plans on-line attachment
-5 years of privatization of Telebrás
-New partners
-New civil code and the judiciary activism in the realm of contracts the Protocol of Cartagena
-Legal interest rates and the controversy about the applicability of the Selic rate

Profissionais relacionados com esta edição:
Aline Randolpho Paiva | Amir Achcar Bocayuva Cunha | Rafael Padilha Calábria | Gisela Sampaio da Cruz | Cibelle Linero Goldfarb

Áreas de atuação:
Corporate | Employment, Labor and Pension Law

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