Background
Julio G P Silveira is a Brazilian lawyer registered with the Minas Gerais Bar (OAB/MG No. 112.344). He holds a law degree from UNITRI, a postgraduate qualification in Private Law from FESURV and an MBA in Business Management from FGV.
His experience includes building and managing in-house legal departments, reviewing and negotiating contracts for infrastructure and concession projects, and advising executives on regulatory matters and risk management. He advises Brazilian and international companies on commercial contracts, compliance, intellectual property and digital business.
Julio reviews our research on Brazil: he reads each report against the federal betting laws, the Ministry of Finance’s ordinances and the official sources it cites, and signs it off before it is published under his name.
Credentials
- Lawyer, Minas Gerais Bar (OAB/MG No. 112.344)
- Law degree, UNITRI
- Postgraduate qualification in Private Law, FESURV
- MBA in Business Management, FGV
What Julio has reviewed
- Reviewed 🇧🇷 Brazil — edition of , reviewed , corrections applied in the edition of Player pageOperator pageLicence guide
The review covers the regulatory checklist (the regulator and the law, licences and how to apply, costs and taxes, technical rules, player protection, marketing, compliance and complaints). It does not cover operator and licence lists, enforcement cases, market figures or news. Changes we make after a review are ours: each page lists them, dated and with their official source, as added since the review and not formally reviewed.
How a review works
- Our research team answers every question of our regulatory checklist from official documents only: the law, its implementing decisions and the regulator's own pages and register. Every figure is traced to the document and sentence that states it.
- Julio reads that research against the primary law in the original language, and corrects or confirms each answer.
- Once Julio signs it off, the pages carry Julio’s name, the date of the review and the edition it covers. Anything we add or change after that edition is ours: the page lists it as added since the review, dated and with its official source.
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