{"id":19058,"date":"2026-09-27T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plbrasil.com.br\/law-no-13-818-establishes-a-new-perspective-in-relation-to-legal-publications-for-corporations\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:19:28","slug":"law-no-13-818-establishes-a-new-perspective-in-relation-to-legal-publications-for-corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plbrasil.com.br\/en\/law-no-13-818-establishes-a-new-perspective-in-relation-to-legal-publications-for-corporations\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Publications of Corporations: Changes under Law No. 13,818\/19 and the Current Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

For decades, corporations functioned under a recurring and rarely questioned cost: the obligation to publish their corporate acts in the Official Gazette and in a major newspaper. Notices of call, minutes of shareholders\u2019 meetings, and financial statements passed through this dual channel, generating expenses that accumulated each fiscal year. <\/p>\n

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Law No. 13,818\/19<\/a> altered this rationale. By amending Article 289 of the Brazilian Corporation Law (Law No. 6,404\/76), the legislation redesigned how corporations disclose their acts, focusing on cost reduction and streamlining a historically burdensome procedure. <\/p>\n

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A few years after the entry into force of the new rules, and following key decisions by the Supreme Federal Court and opinions issued by the Office of the Attorney General of the Union, it is worth revisiting the topic in light of the now consolidated landscape.<\/p>\n

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The End of Mandatory Publication in the Official Gazette<\/h2>\n

The most impactful change brought by Law No. 13,818\/19 was ending the requirement to publish corporate acts in the official press publications of the Federal Government, the states, or the Federal District. Under the previous system, corporations were required to publish their acts both in the Official Gazette and in a major newspaper, which increased costs without a proportional gain in transparency. <\/p>\n

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The framework that came into effect is a hybrid model. On one hand, a summary publication in the print edition of a major newspaper published in the locale of the corporation’s headquarters. On the other hand, the simultaneous full disclosure of the documents on that same newspaper\u2019s website. The new rules apply to mandatory publications carried out on or after January 1, 2022, regardless of the fiscal year or period to which they refer. <\/p>\n

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Digital Certification: Guaranteeing Authenticity<\/h3>\n

The migration of a significant portion of statutory publicity to electronic media required a mechanism to ensure the integrity of documents made available online.<\/p>\n

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For this reason, the full version published on the newspaper’s website must feature digital certification attesting to its authenticity, issued by a certification authority accredited under the Brazilian Public Key Infrastructure (ICP-Brasil). In practice, it is this certification that grants electronic publications the same legal authenticity previously attributed to paper documents. <\/p>\n

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The Special Regime by Size: Where Gross Revenue Comes into Play<\/h3>\n

This is one of the most sensitive and frequently misunderstood aspects of the topic, particularly because the rule changed after Law No. 13,818\/19 itself. In its original wording, it still relied on net equity and shareholder count criteria to exempt certain corporations from publication requirements. However, the Legal Framework for Startups<\/a> (Complementary Law No. 182\/21) amended Article 294 of the Brazilian Corporation Law and replaced that standard. Today, the controlling criterion is annual gross revenue: <\/p>\n