With the booming Brazilian economy, the migration of foreigners to Brazil also is constantly on the rise. In order to mitigate against labor liabilities and an unnecessary labor and tax burden, before seconding expats into Brazil, companies should thoroughly analyze how to best structure the arrangement. This article highlights matters to be addressed, and legal pitfalls to be avoided, when transferring employees to Brazil, and discusses issues that arise upon termination of an expatriate assignment.

Public agencies and private companies face an increasing patchwork of procurement regulations and rules as they conduct business around the world.

Although data protection regulation has been in place for many years in Europe and other countries, emerging countries like Brazil still lack specific detailed legislation on the rules applicable to the collection, processing and treatment of personal data.

We will review the major legislative, judicial and administrative activities and trends in export controls, trade sanctions, customs compliance, and import requirements.

With corruption investigations rising quickly in South America’s largest economy, foreign companies need to know what to do when armed police officers show up at their Brazil offices with a court order to seize computers and company documents.

The LATAX Webinar Series is a special opportunity to answer many questions and queries relating to this practice group, where professionals share valuable knowledge on strategic tax planning.

Data security breach notification is rapidly becoming a significant compliance risk for global enterprises. A data security breach can disrupt business operations, damage brand reputation and customer relationships, and attract government investigations and class action lawsuits. Among other benchmarks, the Ponemon Institute estimates that a data security breach now costs an organization approximately USD214 per compromised record or USD7.2 million on average per incident. As such, data security breach is moving into the "upper right quadrant" on the compliance chart that maps likelihood of an incident against the severity of its potential harm. This client alert summarizes the rapid expansion of global data security breach notification requirements, and identifies ten key steps every global enterprise should take to address such obligations.

The Federal Law for the Prevention and Identification of Transactions with Funds from Illegal Sources and Terrorism Financing and Related Tax Provisions Bill submitted to the Mexican Congress.

The High Court in London has upheld the terms of the ISDA Master Agreement (1992 and 2002 versions) which makes it a condition precedent to any payment obligation that no Event of Default has occurred in relation to the other party.

Anglo Irish Bank Corp Limited has clearly stirred up a hornets nest amongst its junior bondholders. For a failed and now nationalised bank struggling to restructure its finances so as to minimise the impact of its failures on the Irish taxpayer Anglo Irish is caught between the rock of the Irish Government and the hard place of the global financial markets. This represents a challenge for everyone involved in restructuring Anglo Irish's bond debt. Furthermore, the repercussions of the Anglo Irish restructuring, which will be played out during November and December when the meetings are held and any reaction to the votes taken becomes clear, could be felt across the global financial markets as other states try to restructure their financial institutions in similar situations.

The Latin America Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Newsletter provides updates on recent pharmaceutical and healthcare legal developments in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.

Welcome to our first edition of Latin American "Internal Newsletter" for FY11 where we will be providing you with the latest tax developments in the region.

Trade has increasingly become global. So has taxation. It no longer suffices to be cognizant of the tax rules of one given country but one also needs to understand how multi-country rules interplay. The same holds true for tax compliance. It is no longer enough to be observant of tax obligations of one given country if one ignores the correlative effects in others. Tax administrations are communicating and sharing information at an ever-growing pace. Taxpayers should be aware of and be prepared for tax exchange of information.

This webinar discusses how to be ready for the business opportunities that will be generated by the Olympic Games and World Cup. As Brazil further develops its infrastructure, there will be tremendous growth in the need for services, hotels, tourism, housing, transportation and more.

The Surui Indians, who live deep in the Brazilian rainforest, first made contact with the outside world 40 years ago. Today, with Baker & McKenzie’s help, they plan to use a sophisticated financial product to preserve their way of life.