Region: Brazil

Featured in In-house

The top lawyer at Brazilian plane maker Embraer described how its compliance controls protected the company after planned sales to a troubled airline fell through.

25 October 2022

Featured in Investigator's Guide to Brazil

A Brazilian federal anti-corruption agency is growing its focus on bribery that occurs outside of the country but involves Brazilian companies or public officials.

20 October 2022

12 October 2022

The SEC has fined US mining company Compass Minerals $12 million over disclosure failures related to a Canadian mine and a contamination problem at a Brazilian chemical plant.

26 September 2022

In the latest counsel watch, GIR looks at the teams acting for Brazilian airline GOL, telecommunications company Ericsson, banks Barclays and Morgan Stanley, and engineering company Jacobs Group in recent white-collar cases.

20 September 2022

Carrier GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes is set to pay over $41 million to resolve allegations brought by US authorities and the Brazilian Comptroller General of the Union and Attorney General’s Office in a coordinated settlement.

16 September 2022

Featured in Investigator's Guide to Brazil

Brazilian federal prosecutors have spoken about the challenging environment they face when conducting corporate corruption investigations.

15 September 2022

Federal courts in Manhattan and Connecticut have delayed Glencore’s respective sentencings linked to the US portion of the Anglo-Swiss commodity trader’s global bribery and market manipulation resolution.

02 September 2022

Copasa do Brasil is the second company to be debarred for its involvement in a million-dollar bribe to a public official in a road construction project in São Paulo.

12 August 2022

Featured in Investigator's Guide to Brazil

Brazil’s highest court is considering the retroactivity of two main aspects of the country’s Administrative Improbity Act used to establish civil liability against companies and public officials in bribery or public corruption cases.

12 August 2022