In this article, Marcos Malvar and Marjorie Gressler show the legal strategies and challenges in mergers and acquisitions to ensure stability and comply with Cade regulations. Read more
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New legislation on sanitation services may finally bring much-awaited and needed legal certainty and predictability to attract private investors. Clearer contractual conditions, fairer competition with state-owned companies and rules for consortia... Read more
Labor relations are increasingly subject to antitrust scrutiny in important jurisdictions, as traditional labor contracts that are historically protected from competition law give place to flexible arrangements. In Brazil, businesses willing... Read more
Brazil’s bid to join the OECD requires increasing efforts to repress forced labor. Among them, improvement of mechanisms to allow for the filing of complaints and to provide effectiveness to such complaints. Multinationals should pre-emptively... Read more
The Clean Company Act set clear limits to the liability of investors who merge with or buy assets from companies probed in corruption cases. However, other statutes also give several authorities power to impose sanctions on entities involved... Read more
Compliance programs can generate compliance credit for companies in case of antitrust or anti-corruption probes in Brazil. Authorities have issued new guidelines and are expected to increase the grant of compliance credits in future cases. Multinational... Read more
Petrobras’ plans to sell refineries should enhance competition in the downstream market and create investment opportunities. However, the good news may be hampered by initiatives taken by Brazil’s antitrust authority CADE, which might result... Read more
A major alignment creates space for new investment flows into the oil & gas industry in Brazil. Petrobras has confirmed it will focus on E&P particularly in the pre-salt and plans to implement an ambitious program of asset sales in the downstream... Read more
Three cases pending decision by Brazil’s highest courts are bound to have an impact on investment decisions in the oil and natural gas industries. The decisions will affect the sale of state-owned assets and the end of vertical integration in... Read more
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The recently enacted Law No. 13.097 of January 19, 2015 has lifted the ban on foreign capital participation in specialized and general hospitals and clinics in Brazil. The law also allows companies with foreign capital to engage in family planning... Read more