by Kevin Livingston | Featured Article, Latest News
Perhaps the only people in Brazil not crying and cursing the country’s crushing defeat at the hands of Germany in the World Cup are the lawyers. The tournament has contributed to a burgeoning and thriving legal market, according to international legal recruiter...
by Kevin Livingston | Featured Article, Latest News
Three years ago, Greg Barnett did what few U.S. lawyers normally do. He moved to Brazil, all to better understand the challenges that foreigners face while doing business abroad. Advising U.S. clients on deals in Latin America from an office in Miami works for some...
by Kevin Livingston | Featured Article, Latest News
Brazil’s Congress on Tuesday passed comprehensive legislation on Internet privacy in what some have likened to a web-user’s bill of rights, after stunning revelations its own president was targeted by U.S. cyber-snooping, AFP reports. The lower House of Deputies had...
by Kevin Livingston | Featured Article, Latest News, Uncategorized
Guilherme Donega is an attorney responsible for audits, litigation and tax compliance for GE in Brazil. This means that his daily job is to deal with the most complex tax legislation in the world that involves an archaic tax system with a mix of digital tax returns....
by Kevin Livingston | Featured Article, Latest News, Uncategorized
Brazil’s anti-corruption enforcement record has to date been poor. Indeed, in Transparency International’s 2013 Progress Report on assessing the enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Foreign Bribery, Brazil was ranked in the “little or no enforcement”...