Publications
- Category: M&A and private equity
On March 3, 2017, Normative Instruction No. 34 was issued by the Department of Integration and Company Registration (“DREI”), which provides rules for the registration with the local Boards of Trade of corporate acts of Brazilian companies that have as owners: (i) foreigners residing and domiciled in Brazil, (ii) Brazilian citizens or foreigners residing and domiciled abroad, and (iii) legal entities headquartered abroad (“IN 34”).
- Category: Infrastructure and energy
Júlia Rodrigues Coimbra, Larissa Gebrim and Tamiris Guimaraes In early 2017, BNDES announced new operational policies that will govern financing granted by the bank. This announcement followed a review process looking at BNDES’s manner of operational practices, which began in September of 2016, when the conditions for financing for infrastructure projects were announced...
- Category: Tax
Federal Revenue Service publishes Normative Rulings that regulate the exchange of information between tax authorities – Country-by-Country Report (“CbC”) and Common Reporting Standard (“CRS”).
- Category: Environmental
Daniela Stump, Liliam Yoshikawa, and Daniel Guariento The Public Prosecutor of Minas Gerais ("MP/MG") filed, on April 11, 2016, Public Civil Action No. 5162864-29.2016.8.13.0024 ("ACP") against the State of Minas Gerais in order to impose on the State, among other prayers for relief, the obligation not to grant or renew licenses or permits involving building or expansion of mining tailings dams that use the upstream construction method...
- Category: Infrastructure and energy
Machado Meyer has just instituted a new flexibility policy for parents of newborns or babies in their first year of life. The pioneering initiative is part of the efforts of the Women in Machado Meyer Program created five years ago.
With the changes, the benefit for mothers, which has been in place since 2011, will be extended to include adopted children. The firm also launched a pilot project for employees who become fathers to also take advantage of the benefit.
The firm has also created its Diversity Committee. With this new initiative, Machado Meyer seeks to create new policies geared towards other forms of diversity, beyond gender.
- Category: Labor and employment
Cristiane Masuno and André Graça The traditional concept of a family has undergone, over time, public and private transformations as a result of the interest by and the new reorganization of society. In addition to the traditional family, formed by the marriage between a man and a woman, new customs and values have been introduced...