Dispute Resolution: White-Collar Crime
Brazil
6 years ranked
LAWYER PROFILE
Leonardo Avelar
Brazil 2026
Ranked in 1 practice area
About
Provided by Avelar Advogados
Brazil: Contentious
Practice Areas
White-Collar Crime
Criminal Litigation
Corporate Compliance & Investigations
Crisis and Incident Response
Criminal Legal Opinions
Career
Leonardo Avelar is the founding partner of Avelar Advogados, a law firm dedicated exclusively to white-collar crime. With over two decades of experience, he represents companies, financial institutions, executives and high-net-worth individuals in complex criminal investigations, corporate crisis matters and high-profile litigation. His practice encompasses financial crime, corruption, fraud, money laundering, tax crime, environmental crime and corporate criminal liability. He regularly acts before Brazil's superior courts and advises clients in sensitive matters involving regulatory authorities, law enforcement agencies and prosecutors.
Publications
Co-author of Código Penal Interpretado (10th edition, Manole) and Direito e Tecnologia (LiberArs). Author and co-author of several articles on white-collar crime, criminal procedure, financial crime, environmental crime and corporate criminal liability published by Migalhas and JOTA.
Chambers Review
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Dispute Resolution: White-Collar Crime - Brazil
Band 4
Individual Editorial
Leonardo Avelar's dispute resolution practice covers a number of white-collar issues, such as financial and corporate crimes, as well as environmental and digital misdemeanours.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
A helpful, available and responsive white-collar crime lawyer with a collaborative and strategic approach to work, Leonardo Avelar handles sensitive cases with confidence and thoroughness. He also displays a solid commercial acumen, understanding our business and aligning his actions with our institutional objectives.
Dispute Resolution: White-Collar CrimeChambers Brazil: ContentiousLeonardo Avelar is of the best white-collar crime lawyers I've ever had the opportunity to work with.
Dispute Resolution: White-Collar CrimeChambers Brazil: ContentiousWith his refined white-collar crime legal work, Leonardo Avelar's vast and in-depth knowledge of criminal procedure is evident. Whenever we hold meetings with him and our executives, he translates sensitive issues into a language easily understood by everyone.
Dispute Resolution: White-Collar CrimeChambers Brazil: Contentious
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Leonardo Avelar
Dispute Resolution: White-Collar Crime
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