Felipe Ferenzini > Trench Rossi Watanabe > Porto Alegre, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Trench Rossi Watanabe Offices
AV. SOLEDADE, 550, ED CARLOS GOMES CENTER
CONJUNTOS 402, 403 E 404 90470-340
PORTO ALEGRE, RS
Brazil
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Felipe Ferenzini
Work Department
Ethics, Compliance, and Investigations
Position
Career
Felipe Noronha Ferenzini joined the firm in 2009 and became a partner in 2018. He co-coordinates the Compliance and Investigations Group in Brazil.
Felipe has vast experience in the Compliance area, with focus on structuring and leading complex internal investigations, implementation of Compliance, Risk and Governance programs (risk assessment, internal policies, remediation mechanisms, trainings). Felipe also has a relevant background in Administrative Law and related sanctions regime.
He also has robust experience in advising foreign and Brazilian companies regarding compliance laws (Brazilian Anticorruption Laws, FCPA, money laundering and regulatory compliance – pharma, oil and gas, banking, among others) dealing with relevant stakeholders (authorities, regulators, internal and external auditors, Board of Directors, regulatory agencies, independent oversight committees).
Languages
Portuguese and English
Education
He graduated from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo with a degree in Law and from Fundação Getúlio Vargas – GVLaw FGV with a specialization in Regulatory Economic Law.
Personal
Former lecturer of Post Grad course in Compliance at IBMEC-RJ.
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Compliance
(Next Generation Partners)The ethics, compliance and investigations practice at Trench Rossi Watanabe offers wide-ranging expertise in corporate compliance and investigations to a variety of domestic and international corporate clients. Compliance risk assessments, the development of compatible codes of conduct and settlement negotiations with enforcement agencies are typical mandates for the firm. Heloísa Barroso Uelze excels in corporate and criminal investigations across a variety of industry sectors and leads the practice alongside Felipe Ferenzini, who is also very active on the internal investigations front. Associate Ana Carolina Mazzer shines in the implementation and development of compliance programmes, while Beatriz Sangirardi Aranha focuses her practice on anti-corruption matters. Fernanda Casagrande left the firm in July 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Compliance
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- City focus - Porto Alegre > Tax
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Tax > Tax litigation
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- International trade
- Life sciences
- Public law
- Venture capital
- Wealth and succession planning
- Projects and infrastructure
- Restructuring and insolvency
- TMT: Cybersecurity and data privacy
- Banking and finance
- White-collar crime and investigations