Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados

Led by a duo of partners, the 11-strong white-collar crime practice at Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados is ‘a well-established team, with extensive experience and expertise in various fields, very collaborative and empathetic with clients, and attentive to detail in their strategies’. Typically focusing on high-stakes matters, the practice regularly handles matters involivng fraud, money laundering, environmental cases and organised crime from sectors including banking, mining, energy and agriculture. The team has considerable experience providing comprehensive tailored defence strategies, including in cases of a highly technical natures. Criminal law specialists Francisco Ugaz and Juan Diego Ugaz co-lead the team; both have extensive experience in litigation and criminal consulting with recent results seeing them gain paricular prominence as regards fraud and corruption matters, Beyond partner level, a strong second line includes counsels Renzo Vinelli (criminal law and criminal procedural law) and Ivan Meini (corporate criminal law and compliance); and principal associates Erick Palao (compliance and economic & corporate criminal law) and Miguel Aspauza (criminal law and criminal procedural law). Recent matters include representing a major financial institution regarding a significant multimillion-dollar fraud, as well as handling investigations into alleged collusion, and advisory and defence regarding money-laundering investigations, among other matters. Since publication, Vinelli has been raised to the partnerhip - effectve as of January 2026. \n \n