We are honored with the recognition of our law firm by the Leaders League – Brazil 2022 Guide, in the White-Collar Crime category.

Our partners Paulo Freitas Ribeiro and Raquel Dias were distinguished by the performance of their work.

We thank our clients and partners for their trust and the team of lawyers at Paulo Freitas Ribeiro Advogados Associados for the excellence in providing our services.

The complete list can be accessed at the link https://www.leadersleague.com/en/rankings/dispute-resolution-white-collar-crime-ranking-2022-law-firm-brazil

Law 9.677/98, which amended Article 273 of the Penal Code, now provides the application of the same penalty (from 10 to 15 years of jail time) to very different severe situations in the context of the commerce of medicines and the like.

As a result, the Judiciary began to apply, by analogy, the penalty provided for the crime of drug trafficking to those caught with unregistered products, which is significantly lower than the penalty provided for by art. 273 of the Penal Code.

Please read the full article published by our partner, Paulo Freitas Ribeiro, on the blog Fumus Boni Iuris, from the newspaper O Globo, in https://blogs.oglobo.globo.com/fumus-boni-iuris/post/paulo-freitas-ribeiro-desproporcao-da-pena-nos-crimes-relacionados-ao-comercio-de-medicamentos-e-afins.html

We are honored with the recognition of our founding partner, Paulo Freitas Ribeiro, by the ranking Best Lawyers, as one of the most admired lawyers in Corporate Criminal Law.

We appreciate the trust our clients have placed in us.

The complete list can be found here: https://www.bestlawyers.com/current-edition/brazil

Our law firm and founding partner, Paulo Freitas Ribeiro, were once again recognized among the most admired by the directory of Análise Advocacia in the following categories:

• Specialized | Criminal Law
• Economic Sector | Energy
• State | Rio de Janeiro

We appreciate the trust our clients have placed in us.

For our partner, Vitor Buzelin, the enactment of the Law nº 13.964/19, known as “The Anti-Crime Package”, reintroduced important debates about negotiated justice. The Non-Prosecution Agreement, for example, inspired legal scholars to find inflection points between the theory and the practice, without losing sight of the impacts of the instrument on the Brazilian criminal system.

Read the full article https://valor.globo.com/legislacao/noticia/2021/10/27/justica-negocial-no-sistema-penal-brasileiro.ghtml.

Our founding partner, Paulo Freitas Ribeiro, participated in the TV Program ‘Jornal das 10’, from GloboNews, to analyze the possible outcomes of the final report presented by the Covid’s Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry.

Watch the TV Program:

Video 1: https://lnkd.in/eVyWRQzj

Video 2: https://lnkd.in/eWQkqm2X

Video 3: https://lnkd.in/e-8zprzg

It was published in Migalhas the article of our partner Matheus Kauss Vellasco discussing the possibility of adopting measures such as reducing jail time imposed on prisoners who suffered from degrading conditions in jail.

Read the full article here https://www.migalhas.com.br/depeso/351559/a-compensacao-penal-como-forma-de-reparacao-de-penas-abusivas.

Our partner Matheus Kauss Vellasco published an article in Consultor Jurídico (ConJur) discussing the need to compensate arrestees for harsh penalties.

By denying fundamental rights, such as medical assistance and hygiene, the Brazilian overcrowded prison system imposes on arrestees a subset of penalties that exceed those sanctions legally allowed.

Considering this illegal and excessive suffering, the article discusses the possibility of compensating arrestees by reducing the jail time imposed as a means of mitigating the consequences caused by the degrading conditions prisoners have to endure.

Read the full article here https://www.conjur.com.br/2021-ago-19/vellasco-necessidade-compensacao-penas-abusivas.

The partner Paulo Freitas published the article ‘Compliance in the context of criminal investigations’ in the column Fumus Boni Iuris, from the newspaper O Globo.

In the article, Paulo explores different scenarios in which managers from companies need to make decisions as a result of findings of internal investigations implemented due to compliance programs.

In an environment of legal uncertainty as the one Brazil faces, it is common that the question concerning self-reporting to authorities is raised when irregularities are identified.

Paulo analyses the legal rules on the subject and the blanks left by the Brazilian legal system when it comes to internal investigations and self-reporting.

Read the article on https://blogs.oglobo.globo.com/fumus-boni-iuris/post/paulo-freitas-ribeiro-o-compliance-no-contexto-de-investigacoes-penais.html

During the TV Program ‘RJ TV’, on June 10^th, 2021, the partner Paulo Freitas talked about cases of improper alteration of crime scenes during police operations. Paulo discusses possible consequences to public authorities that commit such actions and suggests measures that could be adopted in order to avoid compromising criminal investigations and to assure the safety of police operations.

Watch the interview on: https://globoplay.globo.com/v/9593135/