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On April 17, 2020, the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) concluded the judgement of the Extraordinary Appeal No. 644833, with general repercussion, to define that, “the statute of limitation is not applicable to the civil liability for environmental damage”. Therefore, the Court established a definite understanding in Brazil in the sense that the liability for environmental […]

On April 17, 2020, the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (“CVM”) issued CVM Instruction 622 (“ICVM 622”), which partially amends CVM Instruction 481, issued on December 17, 2009 (“ICVM 481”), and provides for the manner in which publicly-held companies shall hold general digital meetings. This innovation is in line with other regulatory amendments made by […]

Due to the social distancing measures, the public bodies are expanding the effects of acts previously enacted in order to aid in the fight against the Covid-19’s pandemic. In this context, following the rules already established by Rio de Janeiro’s State Decree no. 47,027/20 – which, in its turn, extended the effects of State Decree […]

Right after the Executive Order 936/20 (“EO936”) was enacted on April 1st, the Rede Sustentabilidade Party filed a lawsuit (“ADI”) before the Supreme Court with an injunction relief to recognize the need of union involvement to implement an individual agreement to either reduce the working hours/salaries or to suspend the employment agreements. The ADI was […]

On Wednesday (04/15/2020), the House of Representatives in a remote session approved Executive Order 905/19 to create the so-called Green and Yellow Labor Agreement, which will be now reviewed by the Federal Senate.  If the Senators do not approve Executive Order 905/19 by April 20 it will lose its legal validity.  The text approved by […]

Yesterday, April 15, 2020, was published the Normative Ruling of the National Department of Business Registration and Integration – DREI No. 79 (“NR 79”), that provides the rules for attendance and remote voting in meetings or assemblies of privately-held corporations, limited liability companies and cooperatives (“Companies”). The normative ruling is in line with other regulatory […]

On Tuesday (04/14/2020), the majority of the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) recognized the constitutionality of Law 11.442/07, which regulates the hiring of independent carriers by cargo owners and transport companies. Thus, these companies are authorized to outsource their core activity without having to create an employment relationship. In Declaratory Action for Constitutionality (ADC) No. 48, the Confederação Nacional do Transporte (CNT) […]

The coronavirus pandemic brought serious consequences on trade relations. In order to support our clients to reduce the economic and social impacts in this atypical period of time that we are going through, the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration groups gathered this material to keep them informed about contracts in Covid-19 times. Check below the most […]

In view of the continued disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) has just published an update regarding deadline extension in the Electronic Official Bulletin No. 2571, of April 14, 2020.  The temporary suspension of all deadlines (originally covering the time period from March 16, 2020 to April 14, […]