2016

Compliance programs and the fight against corporate corruption
Law 12.846/2013, better known as the Anti-Corruption Law, represented a milestone in the legal system of the country since it established guidelines for corporate responsibilization for acts against Public ...
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2016

International investment arbitrations and subnational entities
The role of subnational entities, such as states and municipalities, has been exerting an increasing influence in the field of foreign investment. This action is even more relevant in countries such as Brazil, which ...
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2015

Transformations in Contemporary Public Law
The contemporary public law currently goes through postpositivism phase, a period of overcoming the formal legalism, with the recognition of the Constitution and fundamental rights as the central axis of the legal ...
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2015

Coordenation between Brazilian and foreign authorities
World-sized businesses are organized operationally to maintain simultaneous contact with multiple jurisdictions. The different regulatory impositions that such companies are subject are no less dynamic than the own trade ...
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2015

Foreign investment in aviation
Bruno Fernandes Dias has posted on his blog dedicated to Brazilian judicial and administrative courts’ rulings a comment on Bill No. 2/2015, of the Federal Senate, which aims at facilitating foreign investment in the ...
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2015

Foreign investment in healthcare
Bruno Fernandes Dias has posted on his blog dedicated to the Brazilian legal system a comment on Federal Law No. 13,097, of January 19th, 2015, which oponed new oportunities for foreign investment in the Brazilian healthcare ...
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2015

Measuring the impact of regulation
One of the most important conceptual and practical premises to improve the quality of regulatory standards is to correctly measure their impact. Companies, individuals and government agencies, in dealing with the ...
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2015

Corporate liability for corruption
Corruption committed by corporations has caused many regulatory reactions from several countries. Such within their national legislation, such as through international coordination, via treaties, States have sophisticated the ...
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2014

Shale gas regulation in Brazil
Shale gas has emerged in recent years as an extremely promising source of energy, despite the controversy about the environmental and social impacts its exploitation entails. In 2013 Brazil put itself in the vanguard of ...
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2014

Investment in Rio de Janeiro
The concept of foreign investment is one of the most discussed topics in the International Law of Investment, especially in international arbitrations. While the bilateral investment treaties usually brings their own ...
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