About
Partner at Saud Advogados with 20 years' experience in large law firms across the Americas, specialising in compliance, anti-corruption matters and cross-border investigations. He has negotiated leniency agreements (including a global settlement involving Brazilian and US authorities), led internal investigations, advised on multijurisdictional M&A and teaches compliance at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).
Practice areas
ComplianceAnti-CorruptionWhite Collar Crime & InvestigationsLitigationArbitrationCorporate / M&AData Protection
Office
Expertise
Leniency agreements and global settlementsInternal and cross-border investigationsCompliance programme design and implementationAnticorruption defence and advisoryGDPR and LGPD (data protection) complianceMultijurisdictional corporate and M&A transactions
Education
- Columbia University, LLM; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- Parker School Certificate of Achievement in International and Comparative Law; Director, Columbia Latin America Business and Law Association
- Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent)
- Yale University (Law Seminar, 1999)
Admissions
- Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil - Rio de Janeiro
- Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil - São Paulo
- The New York State Bar Association
- US District Court for the Southern District of New York
Languages
PortugueseEnglishSpanishFrench