Manesco | Direito Anticorrupção, Integridade e Mecanismos de Controle

Anti-Corruption and Misconduct

The anti-corruption law became a focus of the law firms in Brazil, in the recent years, stimulated by a numerous set of laws, out of which the Administrative misconduct Law (Law nr.8.429/1992) and the Anticorruption Law (Law nr 12.846/2013) stand out.

Since its foundation, Manesco advises its clients both in the preventive aspect, with risk consulting and audits, and in judicial litigation involving the punitive claim of control bodies.

In the anti-corruption law, Manesco operates in both preventive and litigious fronts

The firm has a large experience in administrative and judicial proceedings, with the implementing of sanctions provided for in this normative set, and gathers an important collection of judicial cases and administrative proceedings with overwhelming victories.

EXPERIÊNCIAS

Advice on the structure of mechanisms and internal procedures of integrity.

Within the the scope of plea agreements or leniency agreement with negotiations in course, elaboration of legal studies on unmotivated rupture

Legal representation of one of the leaders of the global food industry, in administrative process to ascertain liability in the scope of the anticorruption law, with winning results; success, in the same case, in administrative malpractice suit.

Leniency agreement negotiation with the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU) and internal audit proceeding to one of the leaders of the educational services sector in Brazil.

Legal advice to signatories of leniency agreements, in proposing measures of legal- institutional improvement of the public-private relationship. This is one of the liabilities undertaken by the signatories of the leniency agreement.

Legal representation of companies or private individuals in over 400 judicial proceedings of administrative misconduct, with procedural steps in courts of several federation states, in the STJ (Superior Court of Justice) and STF (Federal Supreme Court).