Davi de Paiva Costa Tangerino

Practice Areas

Criminal Law, White-Collar Crime, Compliance and Investigations

Career

Davi Tangerino is the founding partner of Davi Tangerino Advogados. Before founding the firm, he worked as head of the white-collar crime practice at Trench Rossi Watanabe (in association with Baker McKenzie) for four years. His experience also includes serving as a clerk for the Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Lewandowski.

Davi has more than 20 years of practice and has represented several national and international high-profile clients over the years.

Professional Memberships

Davi was a member of the Brazilian National Counsel of Criminal and Penitentiary Politics and Protection of Fundamental Rights of the Prisoner and is currently a member of IBCCrim (the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences), IAB (the Brazilian Lawyers Institute) and of the Deutsche Brasilianische Juristenvereinigung (DBJV).

Publications

Davi has authored many books and articles in Brazil and abroad. He is also a frequent speaker to national media.

Davi holds an op-ed column at prestigious Brazilian website JOTA: https://www.jota.info/opiniao-e-analise/colunas/coluna-do-davi-tangerino/

He also holds a podcast entitled Pauta Criminal ("criminal debate" in free translation), which is available in various platforms, as the two below:

Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/denise-de-paiva-costa-tangerino

YouTube: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/denise-de-paiva-costa-tangerino

Personal

He is a professor of criminal law at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and a former professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo (FGV/SP). He holds a BL and also an LLM and a JD in criminal law from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), with doctoral scholarships at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin (Germany). He speaks Portuguese, English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.