One of the most popular Short Video Apps in Brazil: Comprehensive Legal Support in Litigation, Licensing and Regulatory Defense
We represent one of the most popular Short Video Apps in the country in civil lawsuits, in obtaining sports betting licenses and in defending against a civil inquiry related to the 2022 elections. Our practice ranges from litigation to regulatory compliance, demonstrating our ability to provide comprehensive legal support to technology companies. The client is […]
Infrastructure and Regulatory
Responsibility of companies that sell solid waste
By Leonardo Neri Companies that treat waste need environmental licensing, especially industries and companies that store waste in deposits. Waste treatment involves activities and processes that can have an impact on the environment, such as recycling components and transforming organic matter into compost. Therefore, it is necessary to obtain […]
Important information about CADE and an example of its performance in market competition
By: Leonardo Neri Administrative Council for Economic Defense “CADE”, what is this agency that has been gaining an ever-increasing space in the legal world? Initially, it is important to clarify that it is an agency that is responsible for investigating and deciding on possible anti-competitive conduct, understood as those conducts adopted by an economic agent that may cause […]
Carbon neutrality and the energy transition
09/21/2021 By Leonardo Neri and Fabiana Porta In December 2015, the international commitment to reduce global warming was approved. The agreement was discussed among 195 countries during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, replacing the Kyoto Protocol. Also ratified by Brazil, the pact […]
New GSF Crisis and Energy Crisis
By: Leonardo Neri At the end of 2020 and after five long years of processing by the National Congress, new conditions for the renegotiation of the hydrological risk of electricity generation (GSF – Generation Scaling Factor) were approved. The GSF measures the hydrological risk, which concerns the volume of energy generated by the plants and its guarantee […]
Privatization of the Post Office
By: Leonardo Neri Recently, Bill 591/2021 was approved by the Chamber of Deputies, which foresees the end of state control over the Post Office, a federal public company linked to the Ministry of Communications and whose purpose is to execute and control, under a monopoly regime, postal services throughout the national territory (article 2, item I […]
Joint Normative Instruction 01/2021 and the investigation of administrative infractions due to conduct and activities that are harmful to the environment
By Leonardo Neri In April 2021, the Joint Normative Instruction number 01 of 2021 (INC 01/2021) was published in the Official Gazette of the Union, prepared by the Ministry of the Environment, IBAMA and the Chico Mendes Institute, in order to amend the Joint Normative Instruction number 02 of 2020 (INC 02/2020), which regulates the process […]
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices for companies
By: Leonardo Neri ESG comes from the English environmental, social and governance, and corresponds to an organization’s environmental, social and governance practices. These are standards and good practices that define whether the company is socially conscious, sustainable and correctly managed. The term gained repercussion in 2020, after the announcement made by the CEO of […]
40 years of the National Environmental Policy
By: Leonardo Neri The National Environmental Policy (PNMA) aims to preserve, improve and restore environmental quality conducive to life, aiming to ensure, in the country, conditions for socioeconomic development, national security interests and the protection of the dignity of human life, in accordance with article 2 of Law 6938 of 1981, which provides […]