On January 20, 2015 Law No. 13,097/2015 was published in the Official Gazette with immediate effect. This law amends Law No. 8,080/1990, which regulates the organization and provision of health services in Brazil. Pursuant to the new law, foreign entities will now be entitled to directly or indirectly own equity interest (and control) in Brazilian […]
In the world of modern garden plants, it has become increasingly common for a simple species designation to be deemed insufficient. No longer does “sugar maple” or “common lilac” cut it. Most of our garden plants are represented in the trade by dozens, and in some cases thousands, of named selections (last time we checked, […]
On November 27, 2014 Law No. 5,134, which regulates lawyers’ and solicitors’ fees who work in the City of Buenos Aires (hereafter the “Law”), was published in the Official Gazette. The Law, which was promoted by Jorge Rizzo and Daniel Lipovetsky from the City of Buenos Aires’s Bar Association (“CBABA”), was approved in a special […]
With a collapsed energy market in Argentina and a change of the current administration in 2015, it is clear that Argentina will have to develop and invest in the energy sector, and especially in the renewable energies sector. The purpose of this note is to briefly develop some of the main traits of the renewable energy legislation in – and theprospects for – Argentina. National System for Wind […]
The SOPARFI (Société de Participations Financières) is not a special type of company but an ordinary commercial entity governed by common law, specifically the 1915 Law on commercial companies. It does not enjoy any special tax regime and is fully taxable. There are no restraints on its field of activity. A Soparfi can, however, significantly […]
International Referral, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Eduardo Fornazari Alencar of Ferriani e Jamal Sociedade de Advogados. Eduardo has joined IR as our exclusive Employment Law (Corporate) member in Brazil. Ferriani e Jamal Sociedade de Advogados, founded in 1996, is a boutique firm that assists its clients in several practice […]
On June 4 2014, it was published the Decree 8.263/2014 in order to amend the Regulation of the IOF, and to reduce from 360 days to 180 days the minimum average maturity term on foreign loan, whose settlement of foreign exchange transactions is levied by the IOF /Exchange at the rate of 6% (six percent). […]
International Referral, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Raquel Santos of Neolaw. Raquel has joined IR as our exclusive Corporate Law member in Brazil. Raquel has been working in the Tax Area since 1997, when started career in a boutique tax firm. Since then, she has worked not only at respectful […]
International Referral, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Natasha Pryngler of Neolaw. Natasha has joined IR as our exclusive Corporate Law member in Brazil. Natasha is a qualified lawyer specializing in corporate law. Prior to joining neolaw. she worked for a top-tier International law firm based in Sao Paulo. […]
Montgomery & Associados has advised Venezuelan state airline Consórcio Venezolano de Industrias Aeronáuticas y Servicios Aéreos (Conviasa) on establishing itself in Brazil. Conviasa’s set-up licence was obtained by founding partner and aviation expert Neil Montgomery from the Brazilian Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) at the end of April 2014. For the full article please click the below link. […]
International Referral, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Guilherme Santos of Gasparini, De Cresci e Nogueira de Lima Advogados. Guilherme has joined IR as our exclusive M&A Member in Brazil. Guilherme Santos is the head of the Corporate and Capital Markets group in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at Gasparini, De Cresci e […]
In April 1993, the European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN (in French: Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire – former acronym for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) published a document putting in the public domain the technology it had developed for the Web: a browser, a server and a code library. It was […]