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ANATEL suspends the effects of the merger between AT&T and Time Warner in Brazil

The National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) decided, on August 10, to apply a precautionary measure suspending any act related to the merger of Time Warner by AT&T in Brazil until Anatel’s final pronouncement on the compliance of the operation with article 5 of...

São Paulo State Court decides that "cloud" services are not required to store deleted data

The 35th Chamber of Private Law of São Paulo State Court partially upheld the appeal brought by Apple in a lawsuit proposed by a user of the “iCloud” system that had its files stored in the cloud deleted, supposedly by a third party who was able to access such...

Employees’ data protection in human resources management platforms

The adoption of cloud platforms addressed to centralizing human resources data has become an efficient solution to multinational corporations. A unique and global registration database facilitates a better human resources management and standardizes procedures applied by all...

Recent Developments on Privacy and Data Protection in Brazil

Privacy is one of the basic rights guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution and one of the principles for Internet governance in Brazil. It is also a theme of heated debates because it involves a series of challenging issues in the context of a digital economy, such as...

The Legal 500 2017 | Azevedo Sette is recommended in 14 legal practices in Brazil

The Legal 500 guide published its edition 2017 and Azevedo Sette Advogados was recommended as reference in 14 practice areas: Banking and finance, Competition and antitrust, Compliance and anti-corruption, Corporate and M&A, Dispute resolution, Energy and natural resources...

Commercial Contracts | Getting the Deal Through

Commercial Contracts | Getting the Deal Through has just made available the updated version of a Q&A guide to Commercial Contracts, the Brazil chapter was authored by Ana Paula Terra Caldeira and Luísa Margotti de Carvalho, partner and associate Azevedo Sette Advogados....

CAMEX reduces to 0% the rate of import tax under the Ex-tariff regime

On August 17th, 2017, CAMEX published Resolution # 64/2017, reducing to 0% the ad valorem rate of import tax on importation of Capital Goods (BK) and Computer and Telecommunications Goods (BIT) under the Ex-tariff regime which are already in force as of the date of this...

Annual statement to the Census of Foreign Capitals (CCE) must be submitted until August 15

The Annual Census statement of Foreign Capital in Brazil must be presented until 06:00 pm on August 15 of this year, by the following entities: Companies headquartered in Brazil, which have received direct investment from non-residents, in any amount, and with net equity...
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