Business and Investment in Brazil - Law and Practice

This book provides a thorough analysis of Brazilian business law for foreign investors and their legal advisers, focusing on topics and legal risks particularly relevant to business transactions, which commonly lead to disputes in the aftermath of signing or performance of deals.

List of contents

• 1: Economic and Legal Framework


• 2: Contract Law


• 3: Extra Contractual Civil Liability (Tort Law) and Compliance


• 4: Enterprise Law


• 5: Stock Corporation and Securities Market Law


• 6: Mergers and Acquisitions and Merger Control


• 7: Recovery and Insolvency Law


• 8: Public Procurement and Concessions

About the author

Professor Peter Sester is Professor of Commercial and Arbitration Law at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School (Rio de Janeiro) and co-head of the law school's Centre for Arbitration and Commercial Law. He runs a boutique law firm in Rio de Janerico, consulting on business law, and authored International Arbitration: Law and Practice in Brazil with OUP, as well as several publications in German. He also holds two PhDs: in law, from the University of Heidelberg, and in economics, from the Humboldt-University, Berlin. He was a tenured professor at the Universities Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), St. Gallen, and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where he directed the Institute for Law and Finance.

Summary

This book provides a thorough analysis of Brazilian business law for foreign investors and their legal advisers, focusing on topics and legal risks particularly relevant to business transactions, which commonly lead to disputes in the aftermath of signing or performance of deals.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Sester, Peter (Professor of International Arbitrat Sester, Sester Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780192848123
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284812-3
• No. of pages: 560
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Brazil, LAW / Commercial / General, LAW / International, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, LAW / Conflict of Laws, comparative law, Private International Law & Conflict Of Laws, Company, commercial & competition law, Company, commercial and competition law: general, Transnational commercial law, Private international law and conflict of laws