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ESG investment risk alert
SEC issues alert with concerns regarding deficiencies, transparency failures, and weaknesses in the internal controls of investment managers and advisers for ESG products. Brazilians can take advantage of recommendations to mature their practices.
Duty of administrators on ESG topics
The duty of diligence of administrators takes on new contours today. Even if the stakeholders have no rights guaranteed by law, neglecting esg aspects can destroy shareholder value in the long run.
Difficulties faced by transgender people in Brazil during the process of legally changing their names
Despite the enactment of Provision No. 73 by the National Justice Council (CNJ) in 2018, which regulates how transgender people can legally change their names, the process is still excessively bureaucratic and transgender people often receive unreasonable demands from notary public offices that thre
Recognition of the possibility of cancellation of donation of property made by a relatively incapacitated person not yet banned
Court decision sets a precedent for families to seek annulment of real estate contracts concluded before interdiction. Change aims to protect individual who has not yet been declared incapable.
What has changed in the New Bidding Act?
Law 14.133/21 seeks to simplify and rationalize the legislation of public procurement by consolidating provisions thus far disciplined in Law 8,666/93 and other disparate laws.
Current case law of the Brazilian Supreme Court regarding Article 523, § 1, of the CPC may shorten proceedings in execution phase
By creating economic incentives for spontaneous fulfillment of an obligation, the understanding in the case law that has been crystallizing in the Supreme Court induces the debtor to evaluate the cost/benefit of objecting to with the execution of judgment.
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