The March 2013 issue of the Global VAT/GST Newsletter provides updates from Baker & McKenzie's Global VAT/GST practice on recent VAT and legal developments — both on a regional and a local country basis.

In a series of exclusive interviews with top private equity players and advisers, our second annual private equity report discusses the latest global industry trends and offers tips for private equity and infrastructure investors on how to get deals closed.

This is the 2013 edition of the Latin American Mining Handbook.

This edition of the Private Banking Newsletter contains wealth management-related updates and legal developments from 27 countries across five continents.

This is the June 2012 issue of the Global Immigration & Mobility Update.

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.

This guide presents a view of the business environment in Brazil by outlining the country's exchange controls, taxation system, antitrust laws and other regulations that affect businesses in the country.

Baker & McKenzie's inaugural Insights report, an in-depth look at some of the key trends and developments in the global private equity industry.

This is the 2012 edition of the Latin American Mining Handbook.

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 Global Employment Law Newsletter provides you with links to recent employment law alerts and newsletters from around the globe on various employment law trends and developments.

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 Global Employment Law Newsletter provides you with links to recent employment law alerts and newsletters from around the globe on various employment law trends and developments.