As relações locatícias nos contratos de shopping centers no Brasil durante o período da pandemia da COVID-19

Abstract

This paper deals, in general, with the current situation experienced by the shopping center sector in Brazil due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus. So, First, a brief historical overview is made about the emergence and importance of this sector, aiming to demonstrate the complexity of the enterprise and the difficulty in its maintenance. In This way, some relevant legislation to the topic are also adressed, especially those issued during the pandemic. In this same line, the perspectives in the scope of the sector’s rental relations and the most discussed clauses when dealing with a shopping center contracts, are analyzed, as well as the possibility of easing some charges for the tenants or entrepreneurs of the mall. To this end, some scenarios that may arise in view of the difficulties arising from the pandemic are exposed, in addition to addressing the possible judicial and extrajudicial alternatives available to minimize the losses of the crisis. In this sense, it shows, mainly the magnitude of the shopping center sector in the countryl and the impacts caused by COVID-19 in the sector's rental relationships.