BMA Review #70
Issue #70 of BMA Review presents multidisciplinary contents created by BMA's partners and lawyers. Experts from Data Privacy, Taxes, Labor and Employment and Reestructuring and Insolvency areas discuss the most relevant themes from final 2020.
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Tax in Brazil's Supreme Federal Court: looking back at 2020 and forward at 2021
By Lígia Regini and Letícia Pelisson, from Taxes area
In an unprecedented move, the STF decided to modulate the effects of decisions in order to avoid the negative impacts on public treasuries of certain constitutional commands.
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The importance of security incident response plans
By Felipe Palhares, from Data Privacy, Technology and Digital Businesses area
With the coming into force of Brazil’s General Data Protection Law, setting up a well-structured data privacy and protection governance program, which establishes processes and procedures to be followed in certain situations, is an essential measure for reducing corporate risks.
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From inspection to injunction: the hidden danger in notices of labor standards infractions
By Luiz Marcelo Góis and Cibelle Linero, from Labor and Employment area
This situation, so common in the course of business in Brazil, hides a significant danger: often these notices of infraction are forwarded to the Public Labor Prosecution Service.
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Service of Process by WhatsApp
By Gustavo Kulesza and Mariana Diniz de Argollo Ferrão, from Litigation and Arbitration area
Serving documents and notices in court proceedings using electronic means depends on specific legislation to govern the matter.
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Changes to Brazil’s Corporate Insolvency Law
By Sergio Savi, Eduardo G. Wanderley and Natalia Yazbek, from Reestructuring and Insolvency and Litigation and Arbitration areas
Under the new legislation, if authorized by the JR court, debtors under JR may contract DIP loans, offering their own or third parties’ assets as collateral.
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Energy transition and the importance of the New Gas Market
By Carlos Frederico Lucchetti Bingemer and Adriana Gondin da Fonseca Lontra, from Oil & Gas area
The prospects for increased demand in the power market, combined with public and private energy transition policies, generate enormous room for the growth of energy sources that contribute to the low-carbon economy.
