Corporate and Economic Criminal Law
Economic Criminal Law emerged in Brazil in the 1980s, when criminal laws were enacted to protect both common and diffuse legal assets. That was when Criminal Law started to deal not only with harms to individual interests, but also with damages to common interests, such as crimes against the environment, the financial system and free competition.
Directors and employees of corporations accused of committing crimes within the scopes of their professional activities are now held liable for their offenses. Companies then start to demand criminal counseling, either to represent their executives and employees in criminal investigations and lawsuits, or to request preventive and strategic legal support through consultancy services.
With the outbreak of Car Wash Operation, precautionary measures have become common, to the detriment of companies and their employees. These measures aim to block assets and values, breach confidentiality, perform searches and seizures and enforce preventive detention. For this reason, corporate legal counseling has become crucial over the past decade.
Our firm provides legal counseling to companies in a wide range of industries, both in Brazil and abroad. We offer consulting and legal representation services to executives and employees in any criminal proceedings.
