AP Bulletin

AP Bulletin

End of the 6×1 Work Schedule Approved: What Will Change and How Companies Should Prepare

End of the 6x1 Work Schedule Approved: What Will Change and How Companies Should Prepare

ANPD creates a complaint channel to oversee compliance with the new Internet Civil Rights Framework rules

ANPD creates a complaint channel to oversee compliance with the new Internet Civil Rights Framework rules

Supreme federal court forms majority in favor of ITBI exemption for share capital.

Supreme federal court forms majority in favor of ITBI exemption for share capital.

Wages Subject to Garnishment for Civil Debts: How the STJ Ruling Affects Your Paycheck

Wages Subject to Garnishment for Civil Debts: How the STJ Ruling Affects Your Paycheck

Possibility of redirecting enforcement against the successor company without triggering a piercing of the corporate veil

Possibility of redirecting enforcement against the successor company without triggering a piercing of the corporate veil

Taxation of Dividends | Ruling Paves the Way for Challenging the 10% Withholding Tax

Taxation of Dividends | Ruling Paves the Way for Challenging the 10% Withholding Tax

IBS and CBS in 2027: Tax Rates and Next Steps

IBS and CBS in 2027: Tax Rates and Next Steps

Investment Funds: How to Identify the True Beneficiaries?

Investment Funds: How to Identify the True Beneficiaries?

A New Milestone in the Granting of Legal Aid Benefits: The STF’s Ruling in ADC 80 and What This Means for Companies and Workers

A New Milestone in the Granting of Legal Aid Benefits: The STF’s Ruling in ADC 80 and What It Means for Companies and Workers

ANPD imposes the largest fine in its history: what changes for those who process children’s and adolescents’ data

ANPD Imposes the Largest Fine in Its History: What This Means for Those Who Process Data on Children and Adolescents

Form Matters: What the Foreign Exchange Cartel Case Teaches Us About Class Actions for Competition-Related Damages

Form Matters: What the Foreign Exchange Cartel Case Teaches Us About Class Actions for Competition-Related Damages

TRT-2 Suspends Cases Regarding the Calculation Basis for the Apprentice Quota: Key Considerations for Companies

TRT-2 Suspends Proceedings Regarding the Calculation Basis for the Apprentice Quota: Key Considerations for Companies

New Employers’ Association for Betting Companies: Three Labor Issues for Companies to Watch

New Employers' Association for Betting Companies: Three Labor Issues for Businesses in General to Consider

The Evolution of the Pejotização System: What Companies Need to Do Before the STF Rules on Case No. 1,389

The Evolution of the Pejotização System: What Companies Need to Do Before the STF Rules on Case No. 1,389

Minimum Freight Rates: Approval of the PLV Bill and Presidential Vetoes. What Will Change?

Minimum Freight Rates: Approval of the PLV Bill and Presidential Vetoes. What Will Change?

Government Issues New Administrative Order and Makes Retail Operations on Holidays Subject to Collective Bargaining

Government Issues New Administrative Order and Makes Retail Operations on Holidays Subject to Collective Bargaining

Minimum Freight Charges: New Developments and Potential Impacts of Bill No. 6/2026

Minimum Freight Charges: New Developments and Potential Impacts of Bill No. 6/2026

CFC Technical Guidance No. 01/2026: What Does This Mean in Practice for Businesses?

CFC Technical Guidance No. 01/2026: What Does This Mean in Practice for Businesses?

The Federal Revenue Service Opens New Opportunities for Tax Debt Negotiation in Administrative Litigation

The Federal Revenue Service Opens New Opportunities for Tax Debt Negotiation in Administrative Litigation

The era of guidance is over: how the new ANPD is expanding its oversight of companies

The era of guidance is over: how the new ANPD is expanding its oversight of companies

Supreme Court Unblocks Cases on “Pejotização” and Resumes Hearing on Legal Aid: What This Means for Businesses

Supreme Court Unblocks Cases on “Pejotização” and Resumes Hearing on Legal Aid: What This Means for Businesses

Data Regulatory Due Diligence as a Distinct Category of Legal Auditing

Data Regulatory Due Diligence as a Distinct Category of Legal Auditing

CVM Resolution 245: Enhanced Due Diligence for Non-Resident Investors and Structures Linked to FATF-Listed Jurisdictions

CVM Resolution 245: What Changes Under the New Rule

NR-1 and psychosocial risks: From concept to practice

NR-1 and psychosocial risks: From concept to practice

Brazilian Capital Abroad Declaration (CBE) | Reference Year 2025

Brazilian Capital Abroad Declaration (CBE) | Reference Year 2025

Negocia-DF Program: Strategic Opportunity to Settle Debts with the Federal District

Negocia-DF Program: Strategic Opportunity to Settle Debts with the Federal District

ICMS/SP – SEFAZ-SP admits tax credit on AIIM paid in installments

ICMS/SP - SEFAZ-SP admits tax credit on AIIM paid in installments

ICMS Agreement No. 42/2025 – Reduction of the ICMS Calculation Basis on Cocktails and Drinks

Reduction of the ICMS Tax Base on Cocktails and Drinks

Key Aspects of the Brazilian ConsumptionTax Reform

On November 8th, 2023, Brazil’s Federal Senate approved the Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 45/2019 (“PEC 45”), which introduces a new model of consumption taxation, a key step towards simplifying Brazil’s tax legislation. The bill has now returned to the Chamber of Deputies (House of Commons), where it will likely be endorsed. Considered essential for the […]

Lexology 2024

Our partners Camila Araújo and Ana Lúcia Pinke Ribeiro de Paiva have been recommended by Lexology 2024, formerly Who’s Who Legal. Camila was recognized again in the Energy area, while Ana Lúcia appears for the first time in the ranking in the Labor and Employment area. The British ranking evaluates more than 35 areas in […]

Changes to the Civil Code regarding monetary restatement and interest

Law No. 14,905 of June 28, 2024 was published today, as a result of Bill 06233/2023, which brings important changes in relation to monetary restatement and interest. One of the main changes is the determination that, in the event of default on an obligation, in the absence of a definition of the monetary restatement index, […]

The Legal 500 Latin America 2025

The Legal 500 Latin America 2025

Leaders League 2025 – M&A and Tax Advisory

Leaders League 2025 - M&A and Tax Advisory

Delineations of the General Personal Data Protection Law in Labor Law

Journal of Labor Law and Social Security

ITR World Tax 2025

ITR World Tax 2025

Latin Lawyer 250 – 2025

Firm recommended by Latin Lawyer 250 - 2025

Reminder: Census of Foreign Capital in Brazil (Annual Declaration 2024)

Reminder: Census of Foreign Capital in Brazil (Annual Declaration 2024)

Leaders League – Competition and Antitrust

We are featured in the Leaders League 2024

Unfair Competition Online: Illegal Use of Competitors’ Brands as Keywords in Sponsored Links

Online Unfair Competition

Changes to the Civil Code regarding monetary restatement and interest

Changes to the Civil Code regarding monetary restatement and interest

The deadline for joining the Incentive Payment Program for Debts with the São Paulo City Hall is 28/06/2024.

The deadline for joining the Incentive Payment Program for Debts with the São Paulo City Hall is 28/06/2024.

MP 1,227/2024 limitation on offsetting PIS and COFINS credits loses effect

MP 1,227/2024 limitation on offsetting PIS and COFINS credits loses effect

CHANGES TO THE CHOICE OF FORUM WITH THE APPROVAL OF PL 1.803/2023

I. Objective of Bill 1.803/2023 Last week, the Senate approved Bill 1.803 of 2023 (“PL 1.803/20”), which amends the wording of article 63 of the Code of Civil Procedure (“CPC”). II. Main changes introduced Currently, art. 63 of the CPC allows the parties to freely choose the forum, as long as it is provided for […]

Electronic Judicial Domicile

Attention to the deadline for registering the Electronic Judicial Domicile!

Leaders League 2024 – Cartel Damage Claims

Araújo e Policastro was recognized as a “Leading Firm” and for the sixth consecutive year was at the top of the Brazil ranking in the area of Civil Remedies for Competition Damages in the Leaders League, a renowned publication in the legal sector.Bruno Lanna Peixoto, a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Law area, was […]

Reminder: Census of Foreign Capital in Brazil (Annual Declaration 2023)

Reminder: Census of Foreign Capital in Brazil (Annual Declaration 2023)

The Deadline for the Declaration of Brazilian Capital Abroad – referring to the base date of December 31, 2023 – ends on April 5, 2024.

On April 5, 2024, the deadline for individuals or legal entities resident, domiciled or headquartered in Brazil (including foreigners, depending on whether they meet the criteria of the tax legislation) to submit to the Central Bank of Brazil the declaration of assets and values they hold outside national territory (“Declaration of Brazilian Capital Abroad“) referring […]

Annual Meetings of Members of Limited Liability Companies

Every year, the shareholders of limited liability companies must hold annual shareholders’ meetings to decide on: (i) the directors’ accounts, the balance sheet and the economic result; and (ii) where appropriate, the appointment of directors or other matters that may be included on the agenda. In this regard, companies must take the necessary steps to […]

Regulation of the “Acordo Paulista” settlement program provides benefits for settling debts registered as state overdue liabilities

Tax Transaction In November 2023, State Law No. 17,843/2023 (“Law 17,842/23”) was published, creating the “Paulista Settlement” program, which provides for various types of settlement of tax debts demanded by the State of São Paulo. The aim is to encourage voluntary regularization by taxpayers, as well as to reduce litigation, by granting more beneficial conditions […]

Bill could increase the tax burden on inheritances and donations in the state of São Paulo

Changes proposed in a bill could raise ITCMD rates in São Paulo to up to 8%. On 1/2/2024, Bill No. 7/2024 (“PL 7/2024”) was submitted to the São Paulo State Legislative Assembly (“ALESP”), with the aim of adapting the state’s legislation on the Tax on Causa Mortis Transmissions and Donations (“ITCMD”) to the constitutional changes […]

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