…Law – Law no. 9.307 of September 1996 – and the proposed amendments have the stated objective of strengthening and fine-tuning the arbitration framework in Brazil, thus reassuring international investors…
…reinforced today by other factors, including notoriously onerous visa procedures for entering the sub-Saharan country. And Brazil, as everyone knows, is a relative newcomer to the New York Convention on…
…of the arbitration agreement before an arbitral tribunal. Commentary The New York Convention (“NYC”) imposes on contracting states, including Brazil, the obligation to enforce arbitration agreements. But national courts may…
…candidates who are nationals of members of the European Union; members of the Commonwealth; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; China; Japan; Panama; Serbia; Switzerland; and the USA. Additional information is available here….
…complaint procedure (Verfassungsbeschwerde) that exists in Germany and the writ of security (Mandado de segurança) found in Brazil. Being an extraordinary remedy with a brief procedure, as well as taking…
…different jurisdictions. However, the prospective investor must read with caution this Summary, at least regarding arbitration in Brazil. Here is the Summary regarding arbitration in Brazil, as published: “Brazil’s Arbitration…
The facts On January 9, 2008, in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest, the dam of a hydroelectric power plant ruptured liberating 3.1 billion liters of water and precipitating an…
…Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Such encouragement specifically refers to the creation of a regional dispute resolution mechanism which apparently is under…
…some of the more recalcitrant WTO Members (e.g., Brazil, China, India and South Africa) to become more serious about salvaging some elements of the defunct Doha Development Round in Geneva…
and José Roberto Oliva Junior and Ricardo Dalmaso Marques, Pinheiro Neto Advogados One of the segments of the infrastructure sectors in Brazil that have lately triggered the greatest amount of…
…substrate, rather than a real reason based on the evolution of the judicial system in Brazil and the application of the Law. Arbitration practitioners suggest that there is no such…
…Portugal more attractive as a seat for international arbitration proceedings – mainly in the context of the emerging economies of the Portuguese-speaking countries such as Brazil, Angola and Mozambique amongst…
…the regime. Brazil, the number one FDI recipient in Latin America and fifth highest recipient in the world, has refused to be bound to ISDR. The Perfect Storm Emerging over…
…to be the last missing brick in the framework for such measures in Brazil, and is a significant step forward to encourage foreign parties to arbitrate in Brazil. This post…
…Which States have withdrawn from the ICSID Convention? Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Which States are not parties to the ICSID Convention? Brazil and India are not among the 158 Members…
…satisfying solution. Of course, Sulamerica is not a typical international arbitration case, as it involves a dispute located in Brazil and involving Brazilian parties. That said, the parties did agree…
…most real connection”. On this question in Brazil, the Insureds argue in the ongoing proceedings that (i) the case involves Brazilian parties; (ii) the Insureds project is located in Brazil;…
…only arbitral awards rendered in Brazil (domestic awards) should necessarily be motivated, and that Law 9,307 of 1996 (“Brazilian Arbitration Law”) did not impose such condition on foreign arbitral awards….
…each have approximately 100 — and it lacks a BIT with major trading partners like China, India, Russia, and Brazil. Some have argued that the enhanced transparency, labor, and environment…
…International Chamber of Commerce, Mexico (alongside Brazil) is one of the most frequent Latin-American nationalities present in ICC arbitration proceedings. Just in 2010, there were a total of 62 Mexican…
…the proper law of the policies was expressly that of Brazil, the signatories to those policies were Brazilian, the subject matter of those policies was situated in Brazil and the…
…(Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, East Timor and São Tomé e Príncipe). The fact that Portuguese is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world (the 7th most…
…in most cases? Notwithstanding its appeal, that doesn´t seem to be the general situation in areas within Latin America. It is true that countries as Brazil or Perú have significantly…
…including Brazil, I received mixed reports. First, they had not encountered a market for third party funding in their respective jurisdictions and guessed that it would be unlikely that one…
