On January 26, CPR announced a new Steering Committee for its Young Attorneys in Alternative Dispute Resolution Program (“Y-ADR”) – press release. The new Steering Committee includes Andy Moody, a Dispute Resolution partner in the London office of Baker and McKenzie and Luis Peretti, associate at the São Paulo office of Trench Rossi e Watanabe Advogados, both of whom have co-authored this post. CPR is an independent nonprofit organization that, for more than 35 years,…
In 2015, the body supervising the Brazilian Judiciary (Corregedoria Nacional de Justiça, or CNJ) included among its yearly…
On June 8, 2015, the Brazilian President issued Decree No 8,465 of 2015 (the “Decree”), which lays down the procedural…
The entry into force – on 26 December 2015 and on 17 March 2016 – of two innovative pieces of legislation, the Mediation Act and the New Civil Procedure Code, will usher in a new era for litigation in Brazil. Introduction: Legal Relationships in a Litigious Society The annual report released by the Brazilian National Council for Justice indicates that there were approximately 95,14 million lawsuits pending before Brazilian courts in 2013. For a population of 201 million, such…
The Brazilian Federal Lawyers’ Bar (Conselho Federal da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil) has approved on June 14 a…
On June 2, 2015, the Brazilian Senate approved on a statute on judicial and extrajudicial Mediation (“Mediation Act”).…
The President of the Republic in office, Michel Temer, approved the Law 13.129/2015 on 26.05.2015, amending the Brazilian Arbitration Act (Law N. 9307/1996). The final text is available here. The amendments brought reinforce the cultivated pro-arbitration environment in the Brazilian legal system with specific changes, seeking only to clarify controversial issues and dealing with matters not previously regulated, namely: Arbitration and Governmental entities: it confirms that Governmental entities may submit patrimonial issues to arbitration, regarding matters that…
A conference organized by three institutions, namely the Arbitration and Mediation of the American Chamber of Commerce in…
The Brazilian Senate approved amendments to the Brazilian Arbitration Act (Law 9.307 of 1996) with new provisions in support…
On 30 March 2015, Brazil and Mozambique entered into a treaty, which they call the Agreement for Cooperation and Investment Facilitation. On 1 April, Brazil and Angola entered into an agreement of the same nature. Bilateral investment treaties or “BITs” are agreements between two countries for the reciprocal promotion and protection of investment by nationals of one signatory into the other. That is also the case with the Brazil-Mozambique and the Brazil-Angola BITs (the “new…