Davi Tangerino Advogados

Senior Partner: Davi Tangerino

Managing Partner: André Tanabe

Number of partners: 2

Number of other lawyers: 11

Firm Overview: 

Davi Tangerino Advogados is a Brazilian boutique which focuses mainly in assisting and representing companies in complex criminal and white-collar investigations. In four years since its foundation, the firm has stablished itself as a leading criminal practice in Brazil, being our head partner currently one of the most well-known criminal lawyers in Brazil. Since its foundation, the firm has grown around 115% from its original composition in terms of team. Also, earlier 2022, the firm has expanded its activities to Brasilia, in an office led by senior associate Lucas Aguiar.

Main Areas of Practice:  

White Collar & Criminal: 

DTA advises 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's 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.

DTA’s white-collar practice defends clients on 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 & Compliance: 

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

International Work: 

DTA client basis includes various foreign clients. One of the firm’s main clients is headquartered in the US and DTA team interacts with the client’s US attorneys in a daily basis in order to define client’s strategy and planning. Before founding DTA, 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.

Languages: English, French, Spanish and German  

Clients: 

DTA’s 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.