Mr Jorge Massa > Cortez Massa & Bello Abogados > Lima, Peru > Lawyer Profile

Cortez Massa & Bello Abogados
Centro Empresarial Patio Panorama
Av. Circunvalación del Club Golf los Incas 134
oficina 1007 Torre 1, Santiago de Surco
Peru

Work Department

White Collar Crime and Criminal Compliace

Position

Partner

Career

He is one of the founders of this practice with more than 20 years of intense activity, with a focus on the attention of criminal contingencies related to corporate activity.

Jorge Massa has a great expertise in litigation, defending companies thar are involved in crimes against Public Administration and Money Laundering – that by their complexity require a performance of great strategic capacity-. He knows with great clarity the investigation processes that the Congress of the Republic carries out and to date is realizing criminal compliance for several leading companies, combining a procedural perspective an in-depth knowledge of compliance as an alive being.

Throughout these years he has successfully defended high mediatic profile cases.  In the last five years we could mention the absolution of the norweigan company  Discover Petroleum International (process known as Petroaudios);and most recently the defense of Jose Graña Miró Quesada (Ex CEO and main partner of the biggest peruvian construction company Graña & Montero); and of Ricardo Briceño Villena (Ex President of CONFIEP, most important peruvian business gremial association)

Languages

Spanish and English

Education

He is graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and has magister studies at the same institution.  He also has a specialist tittle in Criminal Compliance by the Universidad Castilla de la Mancha (UCLM) – Spain, is an Internationally Certified Compliance Professional (ICCP), recognized by the International Federation of Compliance Associations (IFCA) and is also qualified as an PECB ISO 37001 (Antibribery Management System) lead implementer.

He has been teacher of Criminal Law and Crime Theory Course at the Universidad Privada de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) since 1999 until 2017 and has served as advisor to the Constitutional Commission of the Peruvian Congress.

Lawyer Rankings

Peru > Dispute resolution: White-collar

The practice at Cortez Massa & Bello Abogados is experienced in white-collar criminal litigation, particularly in cases involving public administration, money laundering, cartels, taxation and environmental matters. The team is headed by Jorge Massa, Luis Felipe Cortez and Christian Bello. Massa and Cortez are experienced in advising companies on criminal compliance matters and acting in matters of economic criminal law, respectively. Bello brings more than 20 years’ experience in white-collar crime advice, and his recent work includes assisting a high-profile individual in relation to sanctions brought against him.