Marta Cristina Cury Saad Gimenes

Practice Areas

With 28 years of experience, Marta represents companies and executives, whether conducting their defence or promoting their interests as victims, and also in the negotiation of plea bargains with multiple authorities in Brazil and other jurisdictions. Marta also does consultancy work, including in the form of affidavits and legal opinions. Having headed the WCC practice group for 6 years, starting 2025 Marta is dividing her time between WCC and compliance, in response to a growing Compliance demand from clients and her instrumental contribution in high-profile investigations.

Career

Before becoming a partner at Huck Otranto Camargo, Marta was a partner at Saad Gimenes and then at Veirano Advogados.

Marta has an LLB (1997), an LLM (2002) and a PHD (2007) in Criminal Procedure from the University of São Paulo (USP).

Professional Memberships

She is since 2010 a tenured Professor of Criminal Procedural Law at the University of São Paulo School of Law. As a professor, Marta dedicates part of her research to studying technology and surveillance in criminal procedure. She is faculty to the post-graduate course on Law and Information Technology at the Polytechnical School of Engineering at the University of São Paulo and is the Academical Coordinator of the seminar “Criminal Procedure in the Digital Era” offered yearly by Brazilian thinktank InternetLab. Marta is also a coordinator at ESEM-USP (Multidisciplinary School of Security at the University of São Paulo), linked to the Institute of International Relations. Marta is associated with several national and international associations, such as Brazilian Institute for Criminal Sciences (IBCCRIM), Brazilian Institute for Economic Criminal Law (IBDPE), Brazilian Institute for Evidence Law (IBDRP), Brazilian Institute for Procedural Law (IBDP), Institute for Culturalist Studies (IEC), São Paulo Lawyers Institute (IASP), Ibero-American Criminal Defense Network, and the Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA). Marta presided over the Brazilian Institute for Criminal Sciences (IBCCRIM) from 2011 to 2012. Marta authored books as well as numerous articles published on specialized collective works and specialized reviews.