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Regulation Of Private Equity In Brazil: Policy Questions Presented And Critique, Shannon Guy
Regulation Of Private Equity In Brazil: Policy Questions Presented And Critique, Shannon Guy
Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review
In this note, I explore some of the policy questions affecting Brazil’s private equity industry that the country must tackle. In Part II, Section A, I begin by asking the threshold question of whether the Brazilian government should play an active role in encouraging the growth of the private equity industry. I resolve that Brazil should play an active role in encouraging the industry’s growth to encourage several possible benefits to the real economy. Private equity may benefit the economy by providing job growth and job preservation, improved access to credit for firms that would not otherwise have funds, and …
Private Equity In Brazil: Industry Overview And Regulatory Environment, Shannon Guy
Private Equity In Brazil: Industry Overview And Regulatory Environment, Shannon Guy
Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review
The overall goal of this note is to paint a picture of the current state of the private equity industry in Brazil and the existing regulations which must be obeyed to participate as a private equity investor. Part II of this note provides a brief history of the private equity industry in Brazil, discusses recent investor interest in the growing area, and introduces the main regulatory bodies in Brazil. Part III explains several specific rules that govern a private equity investment by breaking down the “life” of a private equity investment into four stages: (1) setting up the private equity …
Does International Human Rights Law Have Something To Teach Monetary Law?, Cynthia C. Lichtenstein
Does International Human Rights Law Have Something To Teach Monetary Law?, Cynthia C. Lichtenstein
Michigan Journal of International Law
Although the subject of exchange controls, a substantial part of international monetary law, seems hardly at first glance to be as gripping a matter of international concern as international human rights, the first glance neglects the place of exchange controls in the life blood of developing nations. If, instead of referring to exchange controls, one speaks of the human costs of the international debt crisis, the point is quickly made. Students in a class in international monetary law do see a connection between the outflow of hard currency to repay external debt and the political consequences for a nation that, …