The Firm
Knowledge, Technology and Individualized Service
Bruno Salles Ribeiro, Leonardo Palazzi and Marco Antonio Chies Martins have almost 20 years' experience in criminal and corporate law, having worked in specialised and full-service law firms, where they gained experience in the most varied branches of criminal law, serving individuals and companies with availability, proximity and discretion.
In response to demand from our clients, the firm has also started to offer legal services in civil litigation, focusing on the areas of Obligations and Contracts, Banking Law and Civil Liability, Consumer Law and Family Law, Administrative Improbity and the Anti-Corruption Law. New demands and new challenges, from virtual fraud, breach of data secrecy, civil liability related to environmental damage, fake news, among other issues that are in evidence, have become the object of the firm's work.
We understand that there are no criminal cases that can be considered trivial. Whether it is due to the need for defense or having been a victim of a crime, those seeking assistance in criminal matters face a significant challenge. That is why we are here: to ensure the best possible resolution for the case, with the lowest possible cost for the client.
Performance
Strategy and Transparency for the Best Solutions
Our performance has always been guided by rigorous strategic planning, the search for the best solutions for the cases, absolute transparency in the relationship with our clients, discretion, efficiency, agility and strict commitment to ethics and legality, a model that has presented excellent results in all cases entrusted to our attention.
The individualized support of our team added to the use of technological means allow the development of a rigid and efficient procedural follow-up, essential for agility in the adoption of the necessary measures to protect the interests of our clients.
Litigation scope
In the business sector, our work always seeks to outperform the individual case in which it operates so that it can understand mechanisms for improvement that avoid or mitigate the incidence of criminal law on the clients’ activities.
Our team has extensive experience both in the scope of classical criminal law - those crimes provided for in the Criminal Code which aim to protect life, heritage, intangible property, organization of work, religious and dead feelings, sexual dignity, family, physical safety, public peace, public faith and public administration – and in the context of economic criminal law – criminal offenses provided for in autonomous laws and usually aim at guaranteeing the protection of specific subjects, such as the environment, the financial system, and the tax system.
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Clients
Legal Entities
We work with emphasis on Corporate Criminal Law, representing several national and foreign companies. We have extensive experience in communicating with legal departments, and our structure meets the needs and particularities of companies.
Financial institutions
and capital markets
Internal and external fraud, police occurrences in bank branches, accusations of disobedience, crimes against the national financial system, tax crimes, crimes of laundering or concealment of goods and values and Prevention of Money Laundering for the Combat of Terrorism Financing (PLD/FT), and crimes against the consumer relationship.
Light and heavy
industries
Defense of environmental crimes, occurrences resulting from work accidents, internal and external frauds, occurrences related to the interaction with the government (Bidding Law and crimes against public administration), tax crimes, occurrences in transport and distribution.
Civil construction
and infrastructure
Defenses of environmental crimes, occurrences resulting from work accidents, internal and external frauds, occurrences related to the interaction with the public authorities (Bidding Law and crimes against public administration) and tax crimes.
Medical and
hospital sector
Occurrences related to the import and export of products, crimes associated with the consumption relationship, tax crimes, occurrences related to interaction with the public authorities (Bidding Law and crimes against public administration), internal and external frauds.
Technology
and development
Occurrences related to the import and export of products, crimes associated with the consumption relationship, tax crimes, occurrences related to interaction with the public authorities (Bidding Law and crimes against public administration), internal and external frauds.
Food products
and distribution
Consumer relations, occurrences related to the import and export of products, tax crimes, occurrences related to interaction with the government (Bidding Law and crimes against public administration), internal and external frauds.
Service
providers
Tax crimes, crimes related to consumer relations, interaction with the government (Bidding Law and crimes against public administration), internal and external frauds, defense before class entities.
Oil and gas
Environmental crimes, occurrences related to import of products, tax crimes, occurrences related to interaction with the government (Bidding Law and crimes against public administration), internal and external frauds.
Agribusiness
Occurrences related to import and export of products, tax crimes, environmental crimes, interaction with the public authorities (Bidding Law and crimes against public administration), occurrences in transport and distribution, occurrences derived from work accidents, internal and external frauds.
Clients
Individual Entities
According to the national criminal law, individuals are always responsible for criminal charges except for environmental crimes. Thus, even in the case of corporate criminal law, our fundamental commitment is to the person affected by the criminal situation.
Defending them or helping them to have the appropriate state response to a crime of which they were a victim, our permanent commitment is caring and understanding that there will always be people affected by crime and accusation.
Bruno Salles Pereira Ribeiro
Graduated in Law from the Universit of São Paulo Law School (USP) in 2008, he holds a master’s degree in criminal law from the Law School of USP with a dissertation approved with merit in 2013.
He has specialized in corporate criminal law over the years, having worked at Dias & Carvalho Filho Advogados (2005-2008) and Moraes Pitombo Advogados (2008-2010). In 2010, he took over the coordination of the Corporate Criminal, Anti-Corruption and Compliance team at the firm Cascione, Pulino, Boulos e Santos Advogados, remaining there until 2015. He was a partner at the law firm Cavalcanti, Sion e Salles Advogados, until 2021.
He is the author of several articles in newspapers and specialized publications. Author of the book “Critical Analysis of Secondary Criminal Law”. Organizer of the book “Anti-Corruption Law: An Interdisciplinary Analysis”. He was recognized as one of the most admired criminal lawyers in the country by the specialized publication “Análise 500 – Advocacia”.
He received the Márcio Thomaz Bastos award by the Institute for the Defense of the Right to Defense (IDDD) for his outstanding work on behalf of the Institute, where he currently coordinates the Education and Citizenship in Prison Project (ECID).
He is currently a member of the board of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences (IBCCRIM), where he holds the position of 1st Secretary.
He is fluent in English and Spanish.
Telephone: +55 11 4770-0202
E-MAIL: bruno@sallesribeiro.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruno-salles-ribeiro-06aab725/
Marco Antonio Chies Martins
Graduated in Law from Mackenzie Presbyterian University in 2016, holds a post graduate degree in Criminal Procedural Law from the University of Coimbra in partnership with the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences (2017), and a post graduate degree in Economic Criminal Law from the Law School of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (2020).
Over the years he has specialized in corporate criminal law, having worked at law firms such as Kehdi & Vieira Advogados (2015-2016), Cavalcanti, Sion e Salles Advogados (2016-2020) and Demarest Advogados (2020).
He is a member of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences (IBCCRIM), the Institute for the Defense of the Right to a Fair Trial (IDDD) and the Innocence Project Brazil.
He is fluent in English and German.
Telephone: +55 11 4770-0202
E-MAIL: marco@sallesribeiro.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-antonio-chies-martins-2133677b/
Essence
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ESG
Our fundamental objective is the commitment to promote a more just society, which is why we prioritize pro bono work in various projects related to criminal law and criminal policy.
In building our team, we always seek to ensure diversity and plurality, believing that these attributes not only represent affirmative actions, but are the components for the improvement of our own performance.
We aim to follow the best practices that bring the least possible environmental impact in the activities to provide our services.
