On December 23, 2016 the Brazilian Senate approved a bill for a new law to regulate public bidding procedure (the “Bill”). In Brazil contracts…
Today the Brazilian Federal Government issued the Provisional Measure 752/2016, with new rules for extending the term of some concessions of railways, highways and…
On 16 December 2015, the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice rendered a decision, published on 22 February 2016, which put an end to a…
On 20 and 21 February 2016, the São Paulo office of Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados, in cooperation with Baker & McKenzie, will welcome…
On January 26, CPR announced a new Steering Committee for its Young Attorneys in Alternative Dispute Resolution Program (“Y-ADR”) – press release. The new…
In 2015, the body supervising the Brazilian Judiciary (Corregedoria Nacional de Justiça, or CNJ) included among its yearly objectives the specialization of two first…
On June 8, 2015, the Brazilian President issued Decree No 8,465 of 2015 (the “Decree”), which lays down the procedural criteria according to which government and…
The entry into force – on 26 December 2015 and on 17 March 2016 – of two innovative pieces of legislation, the Mediation Act and…
On June 2, 2015, the Brazilian Senate approved on a statute on judicial and extrajudicial Mediation (“Mediation Act”). The text in Portuguese is available here.…
A conference organized by three institutions, namely the Arbitration and Mediation of the American Chamber of Commerce in Brazil (Amcham Brazil), the Swedish Chamber…