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  • Distributed Ledgers Technologies (DLT) and Financial Markets in Brazil: Regulatory Outlook

    About the author: Erik Oioli JD in Commercial Law, Oioli is the Managing Partner of VBSO Advogados, head of the Bank Law and Capital Market practice and partner of the firm’s Corporate Law and M&A practices. Oioli is acclaimed as one of the leading experts......

  • Legal Framework for Digital Assets Signed into Law

    Law 14,478 was published last Thursday, December 22, 2022 (“Law 14,478”), which sets forth the legal framework for the digital assets market and for the service providers of said industry in Brazil. In short, crypto assets now have specific treatment in the Brazilian legal system.......

  • CVM Settles Opinions on Crypto Assets and the Securities Market

    On October 11, the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (“CVM”) published Staff Legal Bulletin No. 40 (“Bulletin”), which clarifies and settles key understandings on the issue, offering and trading of digital assets – referred to in the Bulletin as crypto assets – which have the......

  • Case – CEAP and Education as a Tool for Social Change

    People and companies concerned with their environmental, social and corporate governance practices, also known as ESG, are always in the pursuit of strong projects to support, especially those that have the potential to improve lives and the community, as a whole. An example of an......

  • Case – Making the Sale of Carbon Credits Easier: Tokenization of Credits Arising out of Forest Assets

    Sustainability-related issues, and especially sustainability that allows for satisfactory and considerable financial return, are and will remain at the top of the agenda for the twenty-first century, having increasingly gained space among consumers, the media and the market in recent years. What to do? How......

  • SOCIAL BONDS AS A LEVERAGE MECHANISM TO ESG

    The term “ESG” stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. It is increasingly present in the corporate world and has been boosted in recent years by embracing issues that seemed dormant in the financial and capital markets. The term has not only stimulated the discussion of......

  • PAYMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

    Nature provides us with everything.  Water, which is magically renewed in an endless cycle of self-purification; the air; the plants that produce the oxygen required for the constant renovation; the soil that is capable of producing rich and diversified food, and the fibers for our......

  • Federal Government amends taxation on investment funds

    The applicable taxation on investment funds, especially those in which quotas may not be redeemed during the investment period, the so-called closed-end investment funds, has been amended by Provisional Measure No. 806 (“PM No. 806/17”). This article presents a critical analysis of its most important......

  • D&O Civil Liability

    The Superior Court of Justice has recently decided that fraudulent and dishonest acts favouring personal interests and practices, which are damaging to companies and the capital markets are not covered under the Directors and Officers (D&O) insurance policy of a corporate entity. In the case......

  • MP 784: Government AMENDS THE RULES FOR ADMINISTRATIVE proceedings WITH the central bank of brazil and the brazilian securities commission

    In addition to the new rules brought by Provisional Measure No. 784 of June 8, 2017 (“PM 784”), as outlined in our newsletter [1] regarding new violations, penalties, coercive measures and alternative means of dispute resolutions applicable to institutions under the supervision of the Central......

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  • The Latin American Lawyer – VBSO advises on Fleury issuance

    BMA – Barbosa, Müssnich e Aragão Advogados advised Fleury on its 8th issuance and public offering of non-convertible unsecured debentures, intended exclusively for professional investors, registered before CVM 160, in the total amount of R$500 million. (…) VBSO Advogados advised Banco Itau BBA and Banco Bradesco BBI, as underwriters......

  • The Latin American Lawyer – VBSO advises on CRA’s issuance of Grupo JB

    Santos Neto Advogados advises Grupo JB on the public offering of Agribusiness Receivables Certificates (CRA) of 72th issue of True Securitizadora, backed by Agribusiness Credit Rights due by Companhia Alcoolquímica Nacional, as per CVM 160, according to the Automatic Registration Rite. Distribution of CRAs was carried out in accordance......

  • Global Legal Chronicle – Itaú and Liqi Digital’s R$20 Million Structuring of First TIDC

    VBSO Advogados represented Itaú and Liqi Digital Assets on the structuring.Itaú and Liqi Digital Assets announced the structuring of the first TIDC (Token de Investimento em Direitos…   Read the full article: https://globallegalchronicle.com/itau-and-liqi-digitals-r20-million-structuring-of-first-tidc/ ...

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