Drawing on more than 100 years of experience, BIG offers a practical, multidisciplinary, and up-to-date overview of the key legal issues relevant to Brazil’s business and investment environment.

The 2026 edition covers essential topics for domestic and foreign investors, financial institutions, companies, and other market participants, including tax reform, the new foreign exchange framework, security interests, corporate governance, financing, intellectual property, data protection, labor and employment matters, competition law, environmental law, arbitration, judicial reorganization and bankruptcy.

More than a legal overview, BIG reflects the firm’s accumulated experience in complex and innovative transactions across strategic sectors of the Brazilian economy.

Brazil Investment Guide – BIG

The law firm of Pinheiro Guimarães was established in 1922, when Plinio Pinheiro Guimarães joined the law offices of José de Miranda Valverde, already in existence for many years. With offices in Rio de Janeiro and in São Paulo, Pinheiro Guimarães represents a wide variety of both Brazilian and foreign clients.

Pinheiro Guimarães has been in the unique position of being able to accompany, on an institutional basis and over the decades, both the modernization of Brazil’s company laws and tax structure as well as the development of world-class regulation of the country’s financial institutions and capital markets. With this strong and historical depth of expertise in how Brazil’s laws and regulations have evolved over the years and how they work today, the firm has always striven to be in a position to provide thorough, innovative, reliable and up-to-date legal support to its clients in the areas of both preventive and remedial law.

In the final analysis, our clients are the heart of the firm. Through our clients, we have been able to demonstrate a practical application of our knowledge and skills. And by working with our clients, we have been able to increase that knowledge and those skills. Our clients have given us their trust as well as the enviable opportunity of being challenged to resolve problems at times of the most novel and intricate nature.

Experiences working with our many clients, together with the legal, regulatory and dispute-resolution capital that the firm has built up internally and, of course, the professionals who actually do the work, all coalesced into the single purpose of preparing, for limited distribution, this Brazil Investment Guide, comprising a collection of brief overviews of various areas of the law in which Pinheiro Guimarães has succeeded in meeting its clients’ needs over the years.