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Rogério Taffarello

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Work Department

White Collar Crime; Corporate Investigations

Position

Partner

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.

Languages

Portuguese, English and Italian

Education

Visiting Researcher – Università di Bologna, Italy;

Bachelor of Laws – Universidade de São Paulo (USP);

Master of Criminal Law – Universidade de São Paulo (USP);

Postgraduate Degree in Economic and European Criminal Law – Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal;

Specialization in Tax Fraud and Money Laundering – Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain;

Specialization in Criminal Law – Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.