Publisher's Synopsis
This is the first book in English to provide a detailed guide to the ways into and around the Brazilian economy. Twenty leading Brazilian practitioners describe and interpret laws and regulations governing business set-up procedures, transactions, contracts, financing, taxation, securities, intellectual property, real estate, dispute resolution, environmental protection, and labour. They explore every issue likely to be important to investors, including the following:
- competition, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures;
- contractual clauses, statutory requirements on specific agreements;
- tax incentives available for infrastructure projects;
- listing and offering requirements in capital and securities markets;
- licensing, franchising, and other intellectual property agreements;
- civil proceedings, arbitration, and the mechanisms of dispute resolution;
- structure of the Brazilian judiciary system;
- rules on conflicts of law and competence of jurisdiction;
- real property acquisition and development;
- environmental liabilities; and
- forms of employment and employment contracts.