Table of Contents

1: Economic and Legal Framework
2: Contract Law
3: Extra Contractual Civil Liability (Tort Law) and Compliance
4: Enterprise Law
5: Stock Corporation and Securities Market Law
6: Mergers & Acquisitions and Merger Control
7: Recovery and Insolvency Law
8: Public Procurement and Concessions

About the Author

Professor Peter Sester is Professor of Commercial and Arbitration Law at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School (Rio de Janeiro) and co-head of the law school's Centre for Arbitration and Commercial Law. He runs a boutique law firm in Rio de Janerico, consulting on business law, and authored International Arbitration: Law and Practice in Brazil with OUP, as well as several publications in German. He also holds two PhDs: in law, from the
University of Heidelberg, and in economics, from the Humboldt-University, Berlin. He was a tenured professor at the Universities Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), St. Gallen, and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main,
where he directed the Institute for Law and Finance.