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13May 2025
Farewell to the founding partner of Azevedo Sette Advogados 5a6l2i
Lawyer Ordélio Azevedo Sette (OAB/BH 13,726 and SP 138,485), founding partner of Azevedo Sette Advogados, ed away this Monday, May 12, at the age of 84. He was one of the co-founders of CESA - Center for Studies of Law Firms and served as an external consultant to the UN...
21Jan 2025
Azevedo Sette hires three partners and adds consultant 4a5266
Brazilian Highly Recommended firm Azevedo Sette Advogados has boosted its TMT, disputes and real estate areas by hiring partners from local firms FAS Advogados in cooperation with CMS, Chodraui e Tambuque Advogados and Lopes Domingues Advogados – at the same time that it...
16Jan 2025
Azevedo Sette Advogados announces new partners in the areas of TMT, Litigation and Real Estate s5k4z
We are pleased to announce that the lawyers Piero Sellan, Rodrigo Tambuque Rodrigues and Sergio Mirisola Soda are new partners of the São Paulo office and Cintia Robin is new consultant. They are professionals with broad market recognition considered references in their...
26Dec 2024
COAF applies fines for the omission of suspicious transactions 604g1u
The Financial Activities Control Council (“COAF”), the agency responsible for monitoring and preventing money laundering practices, applied fines totaling BRL 55.7 million to companies operating in the financial and luxury sectors throughout 2024. These sanctions were...
09Sep 2024
The Office of Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) 6h3d2g
The CGU published Normative Ordinance No. 155/2024 (“Ordinance 155”), which establishes guidelines for the execution of the Commitment Term (“Term”) within the scope of Law No. 12,846/2013, revoking Normative Ordinance No. 19/2022, which addressed early judgment. The...
25Jul 2024
Financial Activities Control Council (COAF) c2i6l
Recent COAF decisions in two istrative Sanctioning Processes (“Decisions”), published on June 25, 2024, imposed million-dollar fines on the Brazilian subsidiary of an international conglomerate in the luxury market. The penalty was motivated by non-compliance standards...
10Jun 2024
Client Alert | Brazil has new rules with Provision No. 161 5s4v1c
On May 2, 2024, Provision No. 161 (“Provision”) came into force, which amended the National Code of Standards of the National Inspectorate of Justice of the CNJ, to update the provisions related to duties to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism and...
04Apr 2024
44 of the 100 biggest companies in Latin America indicated Azevedo Sette Advogados as reference in the region 1m531l
Azevedo Sette is the fourth most popular firm in Brazil according to "Who represents Latin Americas biggest companies 2023" research, which is published by Latin Lawyer’s publication LACCA, and reveals the most popular law firms among the region’s biggest...