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Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados Offices

Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
R. JOAQUIM FLORIANO
1052 – SÃO PAULO
SP 04534004
Brazil
Visit website 55 11 3150 7000

Juliana Sá de Miranda

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+55 11 3150-7267 jmiranda@machadomeyer.com.br View profile

Work Department

White-Collar Crime, Compliance and Integrity, Infrastructure And Energy, Mining, Oil and Gas, Financial Services, Technology, Esg and Impact Businesses

Position

Partner

Career

Miranda has more than twenty years of experience in the defense of Brazilian and international clients’ interests in complex national and transnational investigations.

Her practice encompasses the areas of consulting and litigations. She assesses criminal risks and conducts criminal and anticorruption due diligences in corporate transactions, further defending Business Criminal Law cases related to environmental, financial, tax, antitrust, labor, consumer, capital markets, and other issues, including claimed violations to anticorruption laws and to related criminal laws.

She further has recognized experience in the provision of internal investigations of claimed compliance violations for corporate clients, advising them on possible improvements to compliance programs and trainings.

Miranda’s integrated practice has joined our multidisciplinary crisis management team, which includes partners within the fields of Environment, Antitrust, Compliance, Litigations, Finances, and Labor and Tax.

Memberships

  • Brazilian Bar Association (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro)
  • Representative of the International Bar Association (IBA) Criminal Law Commission for South America (2015-2017)
  • Member of the Brazilian Institute for Criminal Sciences (IBCCRIM)

Education

  • Instituto Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais (Brazil) – Specialization Course in Law and the Internet, 2011
  • Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) – Certification in Compliance & Ethics Professional International (CCEP-I), 2010
  • Business School São Paulo (Brazil) – Specialization Course in Business Management, 2007
  • Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) – Specialization Course in Criminal Law and Economic Criminal Procedural Law, 2005/2006
  • Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal) and Brazilian Institute for Criminal Sciences (Brazil) – Graduate Degree in Economic and European Criminal Law, 2000
  • Universidade de São Paulo – USP (Brazil) – Bachelor of Laws, 1999

Lawyer Rankings

Brazil > White-collar crime and investigations

(Leading individuals)

Juliana Sá de Miranda – Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados

Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados is well placed to advise on compliance matters and litigation at both the judicial and administrative levels involving white-collar crime. On the non-contentious front, the team is regularly called upon by companies – most notably those operating in the oil and gas, banking, logistics, pharmaceutical and technology sectors – to provide legal opinions on criminal mandates, leniency agreements and internal corporate investigations, among other issues. Criminal investigations involving potential violations of anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, tax and environmental law are key areas of activity for the group, which is led by Juliana Sá de Miranda, a well-known compliance specialist with a strong white-collar crime background. Gabriela Estefania Paredes Arcentales, a key contact for clients from the automotive, banking, energy, construction and retail segments, ‘is committed to clients and has a strong knowledge of criminal banking’.

Brazil > Compliance

Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados is noted for its ‘assertiveness, experience and broad knowledge of legal issues’, including compliance and white-collar crime. The team often advises on compliance programmes and crisis management, and stands out for its experience in internal investigations and government enforcement. Clients from the financial, technology, real estate, chemicals and mining sectors, among others, regularly instruct the team in the assessment of anti-corruption risks in the context of high-profile capital markets and M&A deals. Juliana Sá de Miranda has a ‘deep understanding of compliance‘, covering non-contentious and litigation matters. Associates Gabriela Silveira Viana and Gabriela Estefania Paredes Arcentales often advise on integrity due diligence and risk assessments. Former co-head Marcos Paulo Veríssimo left the firm in April 2023.

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