Veirano reinforce and expand White-Collar Defense and Compliance & Investigations practices

With over 10 years of outstanding corporate criminal law and compliance work, Pedro Simões (pictured) is the new partner of Veirano Advogados. He arrives to reinforce and expand the firm’s White-Collar Defense and Compliance & Investigations practices, alongside two other professionals.

Pedro brings deep experience in economic criminal law, defending the interests of Brazilian and foreign companies in cases involving capital markets offenses, crimes against the public administration, tax crimes and environmental crimes. Pedro is highly specialized in money laundering prevention, defending clients before Brazilian entities, such as COAF (Council for Financial Activities Control), CVM/BSM (Securities and Exchange Commission/B3 Market Supervision) and BACEN (Central Bank of Brazil).

In the compliance arena, Pedro advises on structuring integrity and compliance programs, encompassing topics such as money laundering prevention, corruption and private fraud prevention and personal data management. Going further, he coordinated some of the most significant internal investigations resulting from “Operation Car Wash”, taking part in domestic and international investigations and due diligences in the oil and gas, education, life sciences, luxury market, art market and civil construction industries, among others.
Pedro holds Master’s and Doctor’s degrees in Law from Universidade de São Paulo (USP), where he also obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree. As part of his studies, he participated in an exchange program in Economic Criminal Law at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is currently co-coordinator of the executive course “Market Surveillance and Compliance: Rules of the Brazilian Market,” offered by Insper, where he is responsible for all content related to capital markets and money laundering prevention.