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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 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 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 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 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 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

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 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