Anti-Corruption and Misconduct
Since its founding, Manesco has advised its clients both in the preventive aspect, with risk consultancy and assistance in negotiating leniency agreements and civil non-prosecution, as well as in judicial and administrative disputes involving the punitive claim of control bodies.
The Administrative Improbity Law, with its recent amendments, and the Anti-Corruption Law, among others, demand attention from those who deal with public authorities to define the best strategy to be adopted for defense.
In the anti-corruption law, Manesco operates in both preventive and litigious fronts
The office has extensive experience in civil investigations, sanctioning administrative proceedings and lawsuits, bringing together a large collection of judicial cases and administrative proceedings with very relevant 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).