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Leopoldo Pagotto

+55 11 3728 8100 pagotto@freitasleite.com.br

Work Department

Anticorruption and Compliance

Position

Partner

Career

Leopoldo Pagotto is in charge of the antitrust, anti-corruption and compliance practices. He advises companies in several industries, such as banking, telecommunications, IT, mining, shipbuilding, car parts, infrastructure and pharmaceutical.
Besides being an approved anti-corruption and compliance private practitioner by the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA), Leopoldo has been recognised by Chambers and Partners as a foreign expert in competition law and M&A for Japanese clients. He was also considered to be one of the ‘40 under 40’ by Global Investigations Review in the category internal investigations.
Currently, he is the Vice-Chair of the Anti-Corruption Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). Leopoldo was a reporter for Chamber No. 20 and Chamber No. 1 of the Ethics Tribunal of the Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo Chapter.

Languages

English

Education

PhD, in Financial-Economic Law, University of São Paulo (2010).
LLM, in Financial-Economic Law, University of São Paulo (2005)
MsC in Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2005).
Specialisation, in Capital Markets Law, University of São Paulo (2000),
LLB, University of São Paulo (1999).