In the current context of fighting corruption and strengthening a culture of ethics and corporate governance, there may be uncertainty about the role and duties of compliance officers and the insurance coverage for the risks incurred by them.

Since the enactment of the Labor Reform (Law No. 13,467/2017, effective as of November 11, 2017), there has been much debate about the possibility of applying the changes in the rules of substantive law to employment agreements entered into before the Reform.

If the high costs resulting from the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms were not enough, the sector also faces legal uncertainty due to the lack of regulations for environmental licensing.

Ordinance No. 01/2017 of the Genetic Heritage Management Council (CGEN) and Federal Law No. 13,123/15 (the new legal framework for biodiversity, which repealed Presidential Decree No. 2,186-16/2001) established the date of November 6, 2018, as the final deadline for regularization or adaptation in the National System of Management of Genetic Heritage and Associated Traditional Knowledge (SisGen).

The Superior Court of Justice (STJ) established an understanding that electronic loan agreements signed through the Brazilian Public Keys Infrastructure (ICP-Brasil) have the enforceability of an enforceable instrument, thus dispensing with the need for signature by two witnesses. The opinion was obtained in the judgment of Special Appeal No. 1.495.920/DF, of the authorship of Justice Paulo de Tarso Sanseverino, on May 15, 2018.

Brazil has for years been witnessing an intense debate regarding the constitutional jurisdiction to tax the most varied of legal deals involving digital assets, more precisely software, whether it is the ICMS, ISS, or neither of the two.