News ASA
06Aug 2019
Decree nº 9.936/19, published in the Federal Official Gazette on July 25, 2019, regulated Law nº 12.414/11, which instituted the Positive Credit Registry - that is, the formation and consultation of databases with citizen information - in order to establish guidelines for...
06Aug 2019
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on July 29, 2019, that companies that embed the Facebook "like" button on their websites, allowing their users personal data to be transferred to the North American social network, could be held liable for data collection. The ruling...
22Jul 2019
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22Jul 2019
Although no reliable data is available on the growth of the compliance industry in Latin America, all specialists consulted by AQ were quick to highlight that it is a hot and booming topic in the corporate world. Brazil-based compliance attorney and professor Isabel Franco...
17Jul 2019
Our partners Frederico Bopp Dieterich (Infrastructure and Administrative Law), Luiz Sette (Corporate M&A), Ricardo Barretto (TMT), Ana Paula Terra (Corporate M&A), Isabel Franco (Compliance and White-Collar), and Leandra Guimarães...
01Jul 2019
The Brazilian Federal Revenue (Receita Federal Brasileira – “RFB”) published the Normative Rule no. 1,888/2019 (“IN 1,888”) to oblige individual, legal entities and Cryptocurrency Exchange inform its transactions with the purposes of having a clear tax and financial...
26Jun 2019
As Brazil’s Lava Jato, or Car Wash, corruption investigation was entering its fifth year in 2018, Isabel Franco, a São Paulo-based lawyer and compliance expert, was preparing for her first holiday since the sweeping probe began. She was packing for a wedding in Sicily, when...
25Jun 2019
Committed to the continuous development of our in-house talents, it is with great pleasure that we announce a new partner: Thiago Assumpção Henriques, who is specialized in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, and International Contracts at the Belo Horizonte office of...