The newly-updated Sixth Edition of Brazil Tax, Law & Business Briefing puts, at your fingertips, important information on recent changes in Brazil's tax and business laws, as well as new case studies and analyses from leading practitioners.

Read the Press Release (March 21, 2012).

If you have responsibility for your company's operations in Brazil, then you must take into account the legal and regulatory complexities of doing business there. From coping with Brazil's new thin cap rules...to managing transfer pricing...to finding tax efficient ways to finance an acquisition...to taking advantage of investment incentives...to issues relating to Brazil’s IP and corporate governance legislation, your decisions about Brazil’s business operations require an understanding of the country's rules and regulations.

Brazil Tax, Law & Business Briefing provides guidance on tax and legal issues investors should consider when evaluating potential acquisitions, creating a business, or entering into a joint venture or strategic alliance in Brazil. Content and guidance is provided by experts at major accounting and law firms in the region, and topics covered include:

• Summary of Brazil’s thin capitalization rules
• How to deal with tax audits and tax litigation
• Brazil’s anti-avoidance rules
• A new list of tax havens issued by the Brazilian Tax Authorities
• Planning opportunities using treaties
• Transfer pricing in Brazil
• Developments in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions
• A preliminary guide to incorporating in Brazil
• Minority shareholding and antitrust law
• Environmental liability challenges in the Brazilian oil and gas market
• Value added tax (VAT) planning

Contributors include senior experts at major accounting and law firms in the region, such as from Ernst & Young; PwC; Pinheiro Neto Advogados; Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados; Sullivan & Cromwell; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; McDermott Will & Emery; White & Case; and Dewey & LeBoeuf.