Overshadowed by the pandemic, Latin America’s GDP growth results closed 2020 at nearly -8%, while global GDP growth results closed at -5%.
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LatAm • The Legal 500 Latin America 2022
DLA Piper received 46 individual lawyer rankings and 68 firm rankings in The Legal 500 Latin America 2022 guide.
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• “The firm’s extensive
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Latin Lawyer 250 • Latam recognition
We are proud to share that DLA Piper Latin America and its offices throughout the region have been recognized by Latin Lawyer 250 once again. Congratulations to the entire global team!
“What distinguishes DLA from
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Brazil joins the Singapore Convention
By: Felipe Hermanny
Last Friday, June 4, 2021, Brazil took an important step towards promoting international commerce, entering the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, known as the Singapore Convention. This
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Tax Insights: Inaugural Newsletter for LatAm Developments
Click here for the full content of DLA Piper Latin America’s new Tax and Corporate Structuring Insights.
The global pandemic forced Latin American governments to focus on social welfare and plan vaccine deployment for their populations in the second half of 2020. The time to start covering these expenses has come, and there are different approaches being followed – all of which, not surprisingly, are geared towards adding revenue to national coffers.
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Updates on the 5G bid tender in Brazil
In an extraordinary meeting of its board of directors, Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL) has approved the revised bid tender proposal relating to the 700MHz, 2.3GHz, 3.5GHz and 26GHz frequencies dedicated to 5G.
In the
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Luciana Martorano joins Campos Mello Advogados as head of Antitrust practice
DLA Piper announced today that Luciana Martorano has joined Campos Mello Advogados, which has a cooperation agreement with DLA Piper, as of counsel and head of the Antitrust practice. She will be based in the
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Brazil data protection update: General Data Protection Law (LGPD) penalties are officially postponed to August 2021
On June 10, President Jair Bolsonaro signed the bill of law no. 1,179, which postpones the penalties set forth in the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) to August 1, 2021.
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Draft Bill No. 1179/2020 – a compass for Brazilian private law during COVID-19?
By: Felipe Hermanny | Beni Flint
On March 30, 2020, Senator Antonio Anastasia, the Brazilian Senate’s Vice-President, submitted a Draft Bill (“Projeto de Lei”) providing an emergency and temporary legal regime for private law relations
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