Ordinance BACEN 3,978 of January 23, 2020, which was created for the purpose of regulating the policy, procedures and internal controls to be adopted by institutions authorized to operate by the Central Bank of Brazil (BACEN) with a view to preventing the use of financial system for the practice of crimes of “laundering” or concealment of assets, rights and values, as set out in Law 9,613, of March 3, 1998, and of terrorism financing, provided for in Law 13,260, of December 16, March 2016, would come into force on July 1, 2020. However, Ordinance BACEN 4,005, dated April 16, 2020, changed the effective date to October 1, 2020.

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The position of ‘Data Protection Officer’ – established initially under the terms of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – has been imported into Brazil’s equivalent General Data Protection Law (LGDP) with the slightly peculiar title of  “Encarregado.”

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In April 2018, the European Union launched a proposal to create a Directive standardizing whistleblower protection rules and clarifying the proper protection to be given to those reporting a company's misconduct.

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The definition of the 'foreign public official,' according to the USA's anti-corruption law – the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) – has always been a sui generis aspect of the regulation, considering its breadth in comparison with similar standards in other countries.

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The General Data Protection Law (LGPD), Law 13,709 of August 14, 2018, was enacted after the president's sanction, on September 18, 2020,  converting the Provisional Measure 959/2020 into law, and regulating the protection of personal data of individuals, with a level of detail never before achieved by any other local law.

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On the afternoon of August 27th, webinar ‘FCPA Review 2019’ was presented by partner Alexandre Dalmasso.

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On the afternoon of August 25th, webinar ‘LGPD – Lessons learned from the European GDPR’ was presented by three of our attorneys at law: Alexandre Dalmasso, partner; Douglas Leite and Flávio Buzanovsky, specialists in LGPD.

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The French Anti-Corruption Agency - AFA published, approximately 1 year ago, a guide on gifts and entertainment in order to guide companies, foundations and associations to establish safe rules on this topic.

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The Brazilian Anti-corruption Act # 12.846 of August 1, 2013, known abroad as the “Clean Company Act”, brought an important instrument to assist authorities in investigating and prospecting evidence, called a leniency agreement.

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The Bidding Act # 8.666 / 93 - establishes in its Article 87 the sanctions that may be applicable to those who do not comply with the administrative contracts resulting from the bid object.

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Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, which has attracted attention from all over the world, issues related to the personal data protection arouse the interest of many people, especially here in Brazil, due to the force of the LGPD which was postponed by Provisional Measure 959 on April 29, 2020 to May 3, 2021.

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On the afternoon of July 22nd, a webinar was held, ‘‘Data Privacy Law (LGPD) and the Impact on the Health Care Area”, presented by four of our attorneys at law: Alexandre Dalmasso, specialist in compliance with experience in the pharmaceutical industry; Douglas Leite, Flávio Buzanovsky,  and Ricardo Campello specialists in LGPD.

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The US Department of Justice(US DOJ) and the US Securities and ExchangeCommission (SEC) have released a new version of the resourceguide on the US Anti-Corruption Act(FCPA - Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) after 8years since the publication´s first version.

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On the afternoon of July 8th, a webinar was held with the topic ‘‘Transparency in Emergency Contracts”, led by Guilherme France, research coordinator at Transparency International's Anti-Corruption Knowledge Center – Brazil, Alexandre Dalmasso and Ana Luisa Calil, attorneys at law at Licks Attorneys.

Lots of people are unaware that e-mails already existed when companies still used the electric typewriter. The first email, which is known, was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlison. And the first email address created is also his: tomlison @ bbn-tenexa.