Davi Tangerino and Rafael Fonseca launch criminal boutique in RJ
The criminal boutique Davi Tangerino e Rafael Fonseca Advogados opens its doors this March in Rio de Janeiro. The firm brings together two renowned practitioners, who will continue to work independently in their own offices, located in São Paulo and Recife, respectively.
With the new office, which will initially have the two founding partners and two more lawyers, Davi Tangerino (pictured left) and Rafael Fonseca (pictured right)intend to join forces to work together, especially in Rio de Janeiro.
The focus on the capital of Rio de Janeiro came from the demand felt by the two professionals. A professor at universities in the state for more than 15 years – first at UFRJ and currently at UERJ, Davi’s experience in Rio de Janeiro has been very close to academia, which has been extended day by day to the legal market, especially with the training of his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students.
For his part, Rafael, who was Davi’s PhD student at UERJ, has been connected to the city for six years, alternating his time between Recife and Rio de Janeiro. In the medium term, the goal of the founding partners is for Davi Tangerino e Rafael Fonseca Advogados to be another firm of reference in quality criminal law practice – with a special focus on economic criminal law – in Rio de Janeiro, alongside the firms already established in the city.
Davi Tangerino
Davi has extensive experience in criminal and corporate law. His practice involves representing and advising individuals and companies in administrative and judicial proceedings, as well as in negotiations. His clients include companies operating in a wide range of sectors, such as technology, oil and gas and banking. He was head of the criminal and white-collar practice area at Trench Rossi Watanabe Advogados and an advisor to a minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF). He is a member of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences (IBCCrim), the Brazilian Lawyers Institute (IAB) and the German-Brazilian Jurists Association (DBJV). He teaches criminal law on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He was a professor at the Law Faculties of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo (FGV Direito SP) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is the author of several books and articles, in Brazil and abroad, and a frequent source for the Brazilian and foreign press on criminal law and related topics. PhD in criminal law from the University of São Paulo (USP), with a doctoral internship at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany). Master’s and bachelor’s degrees in law from the University of São Paulo (USP).
Rafael Fonseca
More than 15 years’ experience in the criminal area, representing and advising clients in the most varied areas of criminal law. Having worked in the cities of Recife, Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro, he has extensive experience in jury cases, with more than 200 juries to his name and having been appointed as a public defender during his time in Paraná, defending the underprivileged. In Pernambuco, he was appointed by the OAB/PE as an ad hoc public defender for the Jury Courts of Jaboatão dos Guararapes/PE, in line with Goal 4 of the National Council of Justice (CNJ). Since 2021, he has been a Substitute Professor of Criminal Procedure and Criminal Practice at UFRJ’s National Law School, having come first in the competition. He holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Catholic University of Pernambuco, a master’s degree in criminal law from UFPE, a doctorate in criminal law from UERJ, and a postgraduate degree in criminal law and criminology from the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Policies of Paraná (ICPC).
