Davi Tangerino Advogados

Davi Tangerino Advogados offers a unique blend of extensive practice with corporate related criminal matters (praxis) and theoretical depth acquired in a solid established academic career. The great value on legal services in criminal law stems from the capability of understanding how any serious, complex, corporate problem is actually entangled with several other practices of law; and offering creative, forthcoming alternatives in an area of practice rapidly changing and very prone to external pressure (as media coverage and political agendas). Our firm founding partner Davi Tangerino is among the most renowned criminal and white-collar attorneys in Brazil. Our professionals combine solid academic background with substantial legal experience, offering a unique service to their clients.

Main areas of practice
White-collar and criminal: Assistance to companies as well as individuals facing potential criminal liability, relying on expertise from interaction with other areas to address criminal issues from a broader perspective. DTA well-recognized white-collar crimes practice group owes its success to the technical knowledge, deep academic background, assertiveness, creativity, and agility of its professionals, who benefit from extensive experience in complex negotiations and litigation involving domestic and international companies from a wide variety of industries.

Our white-collar practice defends clients for crimes committed within the corporate environment and involving, among others:

• Bankruptcy
• Brazil’s financial system and capital markets
• Free competition and bid-rigging
• Consumer relations
• Frauds
• Environment
• Money laundering
• Social Security
• Corruption
• Public health
• Tax

Anti-corruption investigations and compliance: Our firm advises companies and individuals in preventive measures aiming at avoiding criminal liability arising from its clients’ businesses. Our team is experienced in structuring crisis management programs, focused on dawn raids, corruption, cartel, and money laundering.

International work: Our client basis includes various foreign clients. One of the firm’s main clients is headquartered in the US and our team interacts with the client’s US attorneys in a daily basis in order to define client’s strategy and planning. Before founding DTA, Davi Tangerino was the head of the corporate criminal law practice at one of the largest Brazilian firms, which is associated with a renowned international law firm, and rendered services to client’s from various jurisdictions, managing their expectations and local practices vis-a-vis Brazil’s courts, laws and legal praxis.

Clients: Our client base includes a wide range of industries such as banking and finance, oil, chemicals and pharmaceutical, infrastructure, food and beverages, health care, insurance, real estate, fashion, media and technology, and also individuals.

Pro bono: Davi Tangerino Advogados has as one of its institutional cores its pro bono practice, an activity historically performed by its founding partner. Our firm's pro bono practice aims at defense (litigious actions) and support for the defense (opinions) of vulnerable people and groups who are unable to bear autonomously with the costs inherent to the criminal process.

Offices:  São Paulo/SP and Braília/DF