Denise Salles

Practice Areas

Corporate / M&A / Compliance

Career

Denise Salles is a partner in the Corporate & Finance practice and the Compliance practice at Vella, Pugliese, Buosi e Guidoni Advogados. With more than 25 years of experience, she represents national and international clients in a wide range of industries, such as life sciences, payment services, construction, infrastructure, real estate, financial services and energy. Denise has extensive experience in corporate law, corporate transactions, contracts, foreign investment, and in compliance related matters, with focus on internal investigations, due dilligences, risk assessments, trainings and structuring of compliance programs.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Applied Corporate Law Institute – IDSA;

Member of the International Bar Association – IBA;

Member of the Anti-Corruption & Compliance and ESG Law Committee – IBRADEMP;

Member of the Corporate Law Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association – Pinheiros Section;

Member of the  WWCDA – Women White Collar Defense Association;

Member of the Compliance Studies Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association;

Member of the Commission of Compliance and Integrity of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil – Canada, and coordinator of the group of Investigations and Due Diligences;

Participant of several compliance and corporate events as speaker;

Author of several articles on corporate law and compliance.