Brazilian Ratification Needed for the U.S.-Brazil TIEA to Take Effect

One of the most interesting – but often overlooked – impacts of the global society within the legal community is the growing number of bilateral and multilateral treaties and agreements that foster mutual assistance, cooperation, and exchange of information between legal or law enforcement authorities. In the wake of the major corporate scandals that have brought tax havens and bank secrecy havens into the limelight, it becomes crucial for international lawyers to be familiar with legal institutions of foreign countries as these entities become more friendly to legal requests made by counterparts from all over the world...[more]