View this email in your browser Thursday, October 23, 2014 Join us for a breakfast seminar on Investing in Brazil: Legal and Economic Approaches This Program will Cover the Following Topics: Setting up a Company in Brazil: Main Requirements Purchasing a Brazilian Company: Overview of M&A Transactions in Brazil Participating in Private Equity Funds and Other Investment Funds  Going Public: Brazilian SEC's Plans for New Rules to Ease Capital Market Access and Perspectives for SMEs Moderator: Stuart Fleischmann, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP Speakers: Lia Espósito Roston, Partner, Rayes & Fagundes Advogados Associados Luciana Maria Agoston Burr, Partner, Rayes & Fagundes Advogados Associados Host and Sponsor Sponsor Find Out More Registration > Click Here to register online > Click Here to download the registration form Fees Member fee: $35       Non-Member fee: $70 Time and Location 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration, Breakfast & Networking 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Presentations and Q&A Shearman & Sterling LLP 599 Lexington Avenue (at 53rd Street) New York, NY 10022 Please forward this notice to your colleagues and business associates. Please disregard this message if you have already registered. Copyright © 2014 Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce, Inc., All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. 509 Madison Ave Suite 304 New York, NY 10022 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences It was New Year's Eve in 2009 when my helmet saved my life. Training for the Winter Olympics in Utah, I was at the top of competitive snowboarding when I suffered a life-threatening traumatic brain injury that I'm still recovering from to this day. And while I can never snowboard competitively again, I hope to be a voice for the millions of Americans who grapple with diseases of the brain. Until my injury, I didn't spend too much time thinking about my brain, but in the last few years, I've learned a lot about the engine that drives our thoughts, emotions, and actions. I've learned that in my battle to recover from this devastating injury, I am not alone. Researchers estimate that around 100 million Americans suffer from brain disorders at some point in their lives. From Alzheimer's to autism and ALS all the way to traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and chronic depression, diseases of the brain are not only catastrophic, they are common. That's why the President's BRAIN Initiative -- an all-hands-on-deck effort to understand the human brain and enable the tools, techniques, and technologies that can improve scientists' ability to diagnose, treat, and prevent neurological diseases -- is personal for me. Learn more about the initiative here -- and if you or someone you know stands to benefit from this sort of research, tell that story here. Since my injury, I've learned that the human brain remains one of the greatest mysteries in science. Decades of neuroscience have revealed much about how the brain works, but the great majority of the brain's activity, involving about 100 trillion neural connections, remains uncharted. That's changing quickly. Since the President announced the BRAIN Initiative last year, the research community, federal agencies, foundations, patient advocacy groups, private research institutes, companies, scientific societies, and individual scientists have committed more than $300 million to this bold effort to capture a dynamic image of the human brain, similar to the one that mapped the human genome. The goals of the BRAIN Initiative are ambitious, but they're achievable. Imagine if no family had to grapple with the helplessness and heartache of a loved one with Parkinson's, or TBI, or PTSD. Imagine if Alzheimer's, or ALS, or chronic depression were eradicated in our lifetime. Imagine if we played a role in those breakthroughs. That's why I've worked so hard on connecting, educating, and empowering around brain health, and to tell the story about how much the brain can improve, adapt, heal, and grow. And that's why I'm so excited to lend my voice to these efforts to help catalyze the next generation of treatments for brain diseases. Though my voice may be more public than most, I know that so many Americans have loved ones that have battled brain disorders just as I have. If you want to make your voice heard, share your story at WhiteHouse.gov/BRAIN. I may never get to stand on the Olympic podium, but I'm thrilled to stand with the scientists and students, researchers and citizens on the edge of the next great frontier -- unlocking and understanding the three pounds of matter that sit between our ears. This email was sent to sula_costa@yahoo.com.

DON'T MISS OUT! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TODAY! November 5, 2014 Harvard Club, 35 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 8:00 AM -- 2:30 PM Join U.S. and Brazilian business leaders, government officials and sector specialists at the 2014 Brazil Infrastructure Investments Forum. We will continue to deepen the debate of strategic areas in the infrastructure sector and opportunities for investment in Brazil. Ports - Railways - Airports - Public-Private Partnerships (PPP/P3):  What to Expect in the Near Future International Arbitration and Brazil: Applicable Law, Enforcement Procedures, Best Practices - Why Place Your International Arbitration in Brazil Speakers: H.E. Minister João Otávio de Noronha (Keynote Speaker), Justice, Superior Tribunal de Justiça - STJ Brazil Alden Atkins, Partner, Vilson & Elkins LLP Alécia Paolucci Nogueira Bicalho, Partner, Motta Bicalho Sociedade de Advogados Cesar Cunha Campos, Director, FGV Projetos John Fellas, Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Fernando José de P. Costa Fonseca, Director, National Waterway Transportation Agency - ANTAQ - Brazil Marçal Justen Filho, Partner, Justen, Pereita, Oliveira & Talamini Advogados Erika Levin, Senior Associate, Stone & Magnanini LLP Luis M. Martinez, Vice President, AAA-CDR Joaquim de Paiva Muniz, Partner, Trench, Rossi & Watanabe Advogados Cesar A. Guimarães Pereira, Partner, Justen, Pereira, Oliveira & Talamini Advogados Dietmar Prager, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Mauricio Portugal Ribeiro, Partner, Portugal Ribeiro Advogados Mauricio Gomm Santos, Partner, Gomm & Smith Frederico Straube, President, CAM-CCBC

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President Obama speaks on airstrikes against ISIL in Syria Last night, President Obama ordered American armed forces to begin targeted airstrikes against ISIL targets in Syria. Speaking from the White House South Lawn today before heading to the United Nations General Assembly, the President made it clear that these strikes are part of the U.S. campaign to deliver one message on ISIL: They will find no safe haven. The U.S. military actions also included strikes to disrupt plotting against the U.S. and our allies by the Khorasan Group -- a cell of seasoned al Qaeda operatives in Syria. Watch President Obama speak from the South Lawn this morning. In his statement, the President made clear that the fight against these terrorists "is not America's fight alone": "The people and governments of the Middle East are rejecting ISIL, and standing up for the peace and security that the people of the world deserve. Not since the Gulf War has the United States been joined in direct military action by such a broad coalition of Arab partners. Meanwhile, we will move forward with our plan -- supported by bipartisan majorities in Congress -- to ramp up our effort to train and equip the Syrian opposition, who are the best counter-weight to ISIL and the Assad regime." President Obama also previewed his trip to the U.N. General Assembly, where he'll continue building support for the effort against ISIL: "Over the next several days, I will be meeting Prime Minister Abadi of Iraq and with friends and allies at the United Nations to continue building support for the coalition that is confronting this profound threat to peace security. This overall effort will take time. There are challenges ahead. But we’re going to do what is necessary to take the fight to this terrorist group -- for the security of our country, the region, and the entire world." President Obama speaks at the U.N. General Assembly tomorrow at 10:15 a.m. ET, where he'll talk more about these issues. Be sure to watch on WhiteHouse.gov/Live.