Doing legal business in Brazil

Brazil is the largest country in Latin America and in South America. On the American continent it’s second only to the USA in population size and economic clout – ahead of both Canada and Mexico.

It’s ranked the ninth biggest economy in the world by GDP according to the World Bank in 2019.

With over 211 million inhabitants, it’s the seventh largest country by population and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world. 

Brazil emerged from a military dictatorship in 1985, creating a new constitutional, democratic, federal republic in 1988. Brasilia is the federal capital, while Sao Paulo is the country’s largest city.

On this page:

• practising in Brazil
• the legal profession
• legal system and courts
• legal services market
• foreign law firms
• qualifying as a foreign lawyer in Brazil
• requalifying in England and Wales
• the Law Society and Brazil
• resources