Rogerio Taffarello

Practice Areas

White Collar Crime; Corporate Investigations

Career

Rogério has vast experience in corporate criminal litigation, having worked intensively to defend local and foreign individuals and companies in many of the main criminal investigations and proceedings in Brazil over the last 15 years. He is currently serving his third term at the São Paulo State Bar Association’s (OAB-SP) Attorney Privilege Council, where he was also previously a member of the Criminal Procedural Law Committee.

A former researcher at the University of São Paulo Law School’s Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Rogério was also a visiting fellow at the University of Bologna (Italy), a director of the Brazilian Institute for Criminal Sciences (IBCCRIM) and a member of the Commission on Legislative Matters at the Institute in Defense of the Right to Defense (IDDD).

Rogério is a professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-SP) where he teaches postgraduate courses in Economic Criminal Law and is a guest professor for undergraduate and postgraduate criminal and procedural law courses at different Brazilian institutions. He works as an editorial advisor for the Revista Brasileira de Ciências Criminais (Brazilian Journal of Criminal Sciences) and the Revista de Estudos Criminais (Criminal Studies Journal) – Brazil’s two main publications for Criminal Law – and has authored several other publications on criminal and procedural law, with a focus on economic crimes.

Rogério has been referred to by The Legal 500 as “a world-class white-collar defense lawyer”, and has been ranked among Brazil’s leading white-collar lawyers for many years by institutions including Chambers and Partners, Who’s Who Legal, The Legal 500, Leaders League, Latin Lawyer and Análise Advocacia.

Education