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Brazilian Prosecutor Office files lawsuit against Banco Inter S/A for personal data leak

The Personal Data Commission of the Prosecutor Office of the Federal District and Territories (MPDFT) filed a Public Civil Action against Banco Inter S/A, requesting that the bank be ordered to pay R$ 10 million for failing to take the necessary precautions to ensure security...

Legal insecurity delays investments to bring the internet to all

After the Brazilian Supreme Court overturned all the preliminary injunctions that prevented the conclusion of the agreement between Telebras and Viasat to take broadband internet to places devoid of telecommunications infrastructure, using the geostationary communications...

Australias federal court fines Meriton for trying to prevent guests from posting negative opinions on TripAdvisor

Australias federal court has fined the Meriton Property Services hotel chain, one of the largest in the country, at $ 2.2 million for trying to prevent guests from posting negative opinions about the networks services on the TripAdvisor site. The court found that such conduct...

India is heading towards the adoption of a Data Protection Law

Following the global trend of protecting citizens’ data in a more robust way, India will be one of the next countries to have a Data Protection Law. Check out the main points of the Bill here....

Companies with foreign investors shall provide periodic information to the Central Bank of Brazil until March 31

Companies with foreign investment, whose net worth or total assets are less than BRL 250 million, shall update its shareholder composition before the Central Bank Information System (Sisbacen) until March 31, referring to the situation of December 31, 2017. Information about...

Azevedo Sette is Leading Brazilian Firm in Who Represents Latin America's Biggest Companies research

The research ‘Who Represents Latin America’s Biggest Companies? 2018’, elaborated by LACCA (Latin Lawyer Group) elected Azevedo Sette Advogados as Leading Brazilian Firm for the second consecutive year. We was considered one of the most popular law firms in...

Azevedo Sette is author of Brazil Chapter in International Employment Law, second edition

Our partners Ricardo Barretto Ferreira and Paulo Brancher, and the associate lawyer Juliana Petrelha Hansen are authors of the Brazil Chapter, for the second year consecutive. Some relevant covered topics in the article Legal Relationship of Employer and Employee,...

Brazilian Corporations and Limited Liability companies must perform shareholders/quotaholders annual meeting until the end of April

All Brazilian Corporations and Limited Liability Companies, on the four months following the end of the previous fiscal year (April 30th for most of companies), pursuant to article 132 of federal law 6.404/76 and article 1.078 of the Brazilian Civil Code, shall perform a...
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