By Fabio Candeias On June 26, 2014, Brazil’s Securities and Exchange Commission (local acronym CVM) published Rule No. 549/14 to amend some of the provisions of CVM’s Rule No. 409/04, which currently regulates investment funds in […]
By Jacques Rasinovsky Vieira and Gabriella Nudeliman Valdambrini On July 1, 2014, Ordinance No. 789/2014, issued by the Ministry of Labor, was published in the federal gazette. Such ordinance extended the maximum term of temporary employment […]
By Milena Tesser and Tiffanye Esteves de Queiroz In a recent court decision, the food company Ritter was ordered to pay Queensberry compensation for using a jam jar similar to the one that have been used […]
By Daniela Cristina Ismael Floriano On June 20, 2014, Statement of Interpretation No. 5/2014 was published to provide for the new tax treatment of payments made by payers located in Brazil to individuals or legal entities […]