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M&A in Emerging Countries – Tax Risks and Opportunities
The Importance of Taxes in M&A Processes Companies are focusing more and more on the tax aspects of M&A. This focus is partly because tax authorities are scrutinizing transactions more closely than ever before. But this increase concentration is also
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IFC: Banking On Women – Changing the Face of the Global Economy
Women entrepreneurs are changing the face of the global economy, helping to sustain job creation and economic growth. While investors are increasingly looking to the BRICs and beyond for growth opportunities, the fact is that women represent the largest emerging
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Panama – A Tax Friendly Environment for Foreign Investors
By Luis E. Ocando Bustamante, International Tax Partner of Ernst & Young, Panama, Central America, and Dominican Republic. The economic boom of Panama [1] has been accompanied by changes in its tax system, making Panama more attractive for foreign investors, especially for multinational
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Samba Tech: One of the Hottest Startups in the World
By Pedro Filizzola Samba Tech’s story begins back in 2004 when our CEO and then marketing student, Gustavo Caetano, was an intern at a big health insurance provider in Brazil, but wasn’t enjoying the experience. He didn’t like the internal
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Fruitful Relationships: Clearing and Settlement in Brazil
By Flavio Peppe As Brazil’s economy has grown so has its financial markets. The volume of equities traded on the main market, BM&F BOVESPA, has increased five-fold over the past five years, and the exchange’s derivatives platform was the world’s
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Brazilian Investor Relations Institute (IBRI): Access to International Capital Markets
Connecting Brazilian Investor Relations (IR) professionals with global capital markets is a key objective for IBRI (Brazilian Investor Relations Institute). With this objective in mind, every two years, IBRI hosts Brazil Day, an international forum in which the country’s leading
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IABA: E-Sustainability – Law and Technology Working for the Environment
By Leonardo A. F. Palhares and Caio Iadocico de Faria Lima The times we live in have been shaped by evolution and technology in a very interesting way. In June 2012, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as
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Frugality, Education, Infrastructure and Attitude Change is Needed in the West: We Should Not Rely on Keynesian Nostrums to Pull Us Through
By Jon Moynihan The West’s economic dilemma will not be solved until those countries have not just restructured their balance sheets, by significantly lowering expenditure, but have also significantly changed the mix of that expenditure. In the UK and the
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New ‘Pacific Alliance’ Upbeat and Seeking Competitive Advantages
Leaders of Pacific Alliance: Ollanta Humala, President of Peru; Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia; Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile; Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico. The new bloc’s integration opens up significant opportunities for incremental economic development through increased
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IBGC: Progresses in Corporate Governance – Brazil is Also on Board
By Heloisa B. Bedicks In a hindsight, we can identify several milestones in the evolution of capital markets, as well as national and international organizations that underpin such evolution. As part of an ongoing process, crises in corporate and financial
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