Trench Rossi Watanabe

Criminal Law

Partner

João Augusto Gameiro became partner of the firm in 2018, when he took over the leadership of the Corporate Criminal Law group. As a defense attorney, he has represented several multinational companies and their shareholders and officers in police investigations, criminal lawsuits, administrative procedures, and congressional investigations on tax evasion, environmental crimes, crimes against consumers, antitrust crimes, anti-corruption, anti-counterfeiting, and money laundering cases.

In addition, Gameiro has advised foreign companies regarding Brazilian criminal and compliance laws, performed due diligence focused on criminal, anti-bribery, and anti-corruption liabilities and conducted internal investigations on corporate frauds, corruption, and anticompetitive practices.

He has also worked as a legal assistant at the General Public Prosecution Office of the State of São Paulo and is a professor of Corporate Criminal Law and Compliance.

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Gameiro graduated from Universidade de São Paulo with a degree in Law and from Universidade de Coimbra / Instituto Brasileiro de Ciências Criminais – IBCCrim with a postgraduate course in Corporate Criminal Law. Also holds a master’s degree in Criminal Law from Universidade de São Paulo. Gameiro attended the Intensive Course on Corporate Compliance & Ethics at the School of Professional Studies of the New York University – NYU.