Saud Advogados

Compliance

Partner

Salim Saud is recognized as one of the leading professionals in the field with 20 years of experience in large law firms throughout the Americas, including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, New York, and Houston. Salim has worked in major corruption and compliance cases, including some of the largest corruption scandals in History. Mr. Saud has engaged in the negotiation of leniency agreements, being responsible for the first – and so far the only – global settlement involving Brazilian and US authorities, conducted internal investigations, assisted clients in connection with Congressional Investigations, developed and implemented compliance programs and advised clients on general compliance matters. Mr. Saud litigation and dispute resolution experience includes acting in different arbitrations and litigation cases and he has advised in complex multijurisdictional corporate and M&A transactions.

Salim Saud has also assisted companies in the context of data protection law, in particular for compliance with the European Union GDPR and Brazilian LGPD.

Salim Saud is also a lecturer on several topics relating to compliance, including some of the main seminars and conferences in Brazil and around the world. He also leads and is a professor of the compliance LLM program of the prestigious university Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) and teaches Arbitration and Compliance at the post-graduate courses of the Brazilian Bar, Rio de Janeiro Section.

Previously, Salim was a partner and the leader of the anticorruption practice of Mayer Brown LLP in Latin America, and an associate with Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP (now Squire Patton Bogs).

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Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil - Rio de JaneiroOrdem dos Advogados do Brasil - São Paulo The New York State Bar Association

US District Court for the Southern District of New York

Columbia University, LLM; Harlan Fiske Stone ScholarParker School Certificate of Achievement in International and Comparative Law, Director Columbia Latin America Business and Law AssociationUniversidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent)Yale University (Law Seminar, 1999)