A significant adherence of financial institutions to loans backed by book-entry trade notes can lead to cheaper forms of credit for businesses and expand the activities of financial asset registrars.

The measure aims to preserve the flow of payments through the chain of the electricity industry, but distributors will have to accept conditions considered controversial to have access to the aid. Total cost of the assistance will be paid by consumers, even if they migrate to the free market.

Transitional changes in Brazilian law impact various areas, such as condominium by-laws, company meetings, and lease agreements.

With two joint normative ruling, MMA, Ibama, and ICMBio regulate the conversion of simple environmental fines into services of preservation, improvements, and recovery of environmental quality, facilitating the resolution of administrative proceedings

Aneel, the Brazilian electricity regulatory agency, simplifies the system for obtaining grants for power plants using wind, photovoltaic, thermoelectric, and other alternative power sources. New resolutions reduce legal and regulatory uncertainty in the power sector.

In view of diverse legislative and regulatory changes published by governments in response to the COVID-19 crisis, we have teamed up with 11 law firms in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula to prepare a table summing up the relevant changes that have occurred in Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.