Corporate Criminal Law
Protecting Your Rights and Reputation

Corporate crime is a serious matter, affecting your company’s reputation and performance. You need to guard against corruption and counterfeiting inside your organization and in your dealings with other parties. You also need to comply with Brazil’s stringent environment, tax, consumer protection and trade laws, or you can face criminal charges. 

Trench, Rossi e Watanabe, an associate of international law firm Baker & McKenzie, can help protect your company’s interests through preventive and remedial legal measures for corporate crime. We can help you comply with Brazil’s environment, tax and other corporate laws, and we can defend you if you face charges.

Our deep knowledge and experience in local and international trade laws can also help you recognize and avoid corrupt business deals with others. Our corporate criminal law team works closely with our other practice groups to provide you with legal advice that is comprehensive and complementary to your goals.

How We Can Help

• Preventive legal advice – Advise on all aspects of corporate criminal law, conduct and compliance reviews
• Litigation – Represent and defend in search and seizures, investigations and criminal prosecutions
• Anti-counterfeiting – Help protect intellectual property rights, including programs to fight counterfeiting, trademark infringements and reverse engineering
• Economic and financial crimes – Counsel on economic matters, including antitrust, unfair competition, tax evasion, crimes against the national financial system and money laundering
• Internal and independent corporate investigations – Conduct internal investigations into allegations of employee wrongdoing and other matters, enabling audit committees and outside directors to perform their fiduciary duties, defend their conduct and make decisions about SEC disclosures, self-reporting, corporate governance and internal controls issues
• Other areas – Advise in connection with crimes involving consumers, the environment, social security, media and defamation