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Brazil Garment Industry – Health and Safety Issues Overview

By Renata Neeser, Shareholder, Littler New York

Health and Safety is generally regulated under the Brazilian Labor Code and more specifically by the Ministry of Labor through its Regulations ("NR"). The regulations vary according to industry, type of work, premises and number of employees. The rules involve minimum standards of sanitation, safety, comfort, medical control programs (as described below) and risk prevention.

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Open Skies Agreements (Brazil)

By Luciana Goulart Penteado, Partner, and Victor Hanna, Associate, Demarest Advogados

The main purpose of the Open Skies Agreements is to deregulate certain areas of the air transport industry in Brazil and, consequently, encourage the market to work freely, which causes various effects in liberalized markets.

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How To Do Business and Invest in Brazil

By AMCHAM Brasil

Amcham-Brasil’s How-To Guides for businesses seeking opportunities in Brazil. Documents in the following categories provide the groundwork for successful expansion into Latin America’s fastest-growing economy:
• How to invest in São Paulo, Paraná, Pernambuco, and Goiás
• How to manage corporate taxes in Brazil, to establish a business presence in Brazil, to obtain visas for Brazil, to do
governmental contracts in Brazil, legitimize a business partnership in Brazil, and to understand litigation in Brazil
• How to obtain environmental permits in Brazil
• How to understand legal aspects of doing infrastructure business in Brazil
• How to do cash management in Brazil and to deal with banks financing in Brazil
• How to protect people and property in Brazil and to import into Brazil
• How to understand real estate market in Brazil and to choose your logistical/industrial facility in Brazil
• How to do branding in Brazil
• How to understand IT law in Brazil

Sample Forms, Policies, and Contracts

Form of Promissory Note

By Demarest Advogados, Lex Mundi member firm for Brazil

This form is a sample promissory note with specific application in Brazil.

Program Materials

CuttingEdge Issues in Anti-Corruption and Compliance in Latin America

By Charles Duross, Sheldon Quan, Catherine Smith, Ruti Smithline

Latin America remains a market of opportunity and investment for multinationals, but significant corruption problems present complex obstacles for investing and operating in the region. A panel of leading anti-corruption compliance professionals will discuss the legal and business challenges faced by companies with global operations, and provide strategies to develop region- and country-specific programs, with special emphasis on Mexico and Brazil. They’ll also review recent high-profile investigations and targets for enforcement.

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Piercing of the Corporate Veil under the Consumer Protection Law - Interpretation of par. 5, article 28 of the Consumer Protection Code (Brazil)

By Demarest Advogados

Under the Consumer Protection Law, the piercing of the corporate veil is an issue that still raises controversies - in view of its significant practical effects, especially to suppliers - and involves the following questions: is it necessary to exist fraud or abuse of right by the partners to pierce the corporate veil or, is it enough that the legal entity be an obstacle to the compensation for losses caused by legal entities to consumers?

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Restructuring & Insolvency - Brazil

By Bruno Kurzweil de Oliveira and Joel Luis Thomaz Bastos, Dias Carneiro Advogados

What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?