Law firm features - Opinion
Friday, 13th January 2012
Nelson Eizirik, partner of Carvalhosa e Eizirik Advogados, explains why his firm and the BM&FBovespa are looking to the United Kingdom for inspiration in setting up a panel to monitor takeovers in Brazil
Friday, 16th December 2011 by Clare Bolton
BRAZIL BLOG: Pedro Freitas, the new managing partner of Veirano Advogados, talks to Clare Bolton about why the firm is more than its Rio de Janeiro and project finance roots
Monday, 5th December 2011
Now more than 30 years old, Chile’s individually-funded pension system is performing as planned and has even shown itself capable of recovering from a financial crisis. Enrique Munita, partner at Philippi, Yrarrázaval, Pulido & Brunner, says other countries would do well to replicate it
Monday, 5th December 2011
In light of Spain’s numerous treaties with Latin America and a favourable tax regime, Uría Menéndez partner Guillermo Canalejo in Madrid and associate Pere Pons in New York make the case for licences and financing through foreign branches of Spanish companies
Friday, 2nd December 2011 by Clare Bolton
BRAZIL BLOG: Brazil’s pro bono clearinghouse is celebrating its tenth birthday. Clare Bolton looks at just how far the practice of pro bono has changed over the last decade, and the next steps for law firms and legal departments
Friday, 25th November 2011 by Clare Bolton
BRAZIL BLOG: Mass litigation maybe out of fashion for Brazil’s top firms, but clients are still facing hundreds of thousands of claims against them and billions in liabilities. Clare Bolton asks what can be done about this aspect of the ‘Custo Brasil’
Friday, 25th November 2011
Thursday, 24th November 2011
King & Spalding LLP partner Suzanne Rab in London and counsel Danielle Fitzpatrick in Austin consider the use of dawn raids and searches internationally in light of Mexico’s new competition law
Monday, 21st November 2011
Partner Juan Diehl Moreno and associate Fernando Pino Ceverino of Marval O'Farrell & Mairal discuss Argentina’s new controls on the purchase of foreign currency increases
Friday, 18th November 2011 by Clare Bolton
BRAZIL BLOG (Venezuela edition): Two weeks before President Dilma is due to visit Caracas, Clare Bolton looks at the ‘special relationship’ and wonders just how - and if - it is working
Friday, 11th November 2011
After thousands gathered in Rio de Janeiro yesterday to protest against plans to share the proceeds from Brazil’s oil industry across non-oil producing states, Carlos Roberto Siqueira Castro, partner in Siqueira Castro - Advogados’ Rio office, says the new system is at odds with the federal constitution
Friday, 4th November 2011 by Clare Bolton
BRAZIL BLOG: Walmart prides itself on spending very little, and so on providing low cost to consumers. How does its Brazilian general counsel reconcile that with rising legal costs in the country, asks Clare Bolton
Thursday, 3rd November 2011
International finance centres provide an ideal route for deploying capital. It’s time Brazil came round to their advantages, argues Rolf Lindsay, partner at Walkers in the Cayman Islands
Friday, 28th October 2011
Single-member companies are set to arrive in Brazil next January. TozziniFreire Advogados partner Shin Jae Kim and associate Luiz Renato Okumura say the associated changes to the country’s corporate law are a step in the right direction
Friday, 28th October 2011 by Clare Bolton
BRAZIL BLOG: Brazil is a major player in an escalating global trade war – prompting rapid developments in the practice within local law firms, reports Clare Bolton
