U.S.-Brazil Relations: What to Expect in 2011?

The Brazil-U.S. Business Council and Mayer Brown LLP hosted "U.S.-Brazil Relations: What to Expect in 2011?"  The event featured the following special guests:
 
Welber Barral, Brazil's Secretary Foreign Trade
Susan Schwab, former U.S. Trade Representative and Mayer Brown Strategic Advisor
Bruno Werneck, Partner, Tauil & Chequer Advogados, in association with Mayer Brown LLP, São Paulo
Kellie Meiman Hock, Managing Director of McLarty Associates
 
The United States and Brazil enjoy a friendly but complex relationship.  On the one hand, Brazil's burgeoning economy presents numerous opportunities for U.S. businesses and investors.  Brazil's GDP expanded at an unprecedented rate of 7 percent in 2010, and market analysts predict Brazil will continue to experience strong economic growth in 2011.  On the other hand, the country's diplomatic agenda under outgoing President Lula has, at times, been a source of controversy, with trade disputes often taking center stage in the two countries' bilateral agenda.  But what can be expected in 2011 as Brazil's first female president, Dilma Rousseff, takes office?

Will Rousseff continue Lula's trade and foreign investment policies?  How will the Rousseff administration handle trade disputes with the United States?  What is the outlook for U.S. investors in Brazil?  These and other related questions will be the theme of a breakfast seminar with Brazil's Secretary Foreign Trade Welber Barral; former U.S. Trade Representative and Mayer Brown Strategic Advisor, Ambassador Susan Schwab; Partner at Tauil & Chequer Advogados (in association with Mayer Brown LLP in São Paulo) Bruno Werneck; and Managing Director of McLarty Associates Kellie Meiman Hock.
 
For additional information, please contact Somer McBride at smcbride@mayerbrown.com or 202-263-3015.

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