Public firms typically do not pay large dividens in coutries that offer weak legal protection to the cashflow rights of minority shareholders, this pattern is correlated with poorly developed stock markets and low stock prices. Firms that want to break this virtuous cycle build a reputation of treating minority shareholders fairly by adopting more agressive dividends polices. Do mixed-owned firms and foreign subsidiaries need to build such a reputation? Or do they inherit the reputation of their controlling shareholders? To answer these questions, I compare dividends policies and capital struct choices of mixed-owned firms and foreign subsidiaries with comparable companies listed on Brazil s stock Exchange (B3), between 2003 and 2017. The data show that foreign companies and mixed-owned firms adopt more agressive dividends policies then others companies listed in B3, suggesting that they still build a reputation for treating minority shareholdes properly.