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When a company buys another's premises, inventory, equipment and customer base, negotiations usually focus on price. Brazilian law, however, treats this as a transaction of its own, the sale of a business establishment (known in Portuguese as trespasse), with rules that affect both parties long after signing. What a business establishment is Under article 1,142 of the Brazilian Civil Code, a business establishment is the set of assets organized to carry on a business: premise