Ricardo Caiado Lima

Practice Areas

Compliance and Investigation, Cybersecurity, Corporate Criminal

Career

Ricardo Caiado is a partner in Campos Mello Advogados in cooperation with DLA Piper of the white-collar crimes issues, compliance, and corporate investigations practices, based in São Paulo.

Ricardo advises individuals and corporations in anticorruption compliance, corporate investigations, and white-collar crime issues.

He has extensive experience in compliance matters by drafting memoranda and legal opinions on compliance risks, conducting corporate investigations in the context of leniency agreement programs signed between companies and law enforcement agencies, drafting, reviewing, and updating corporate policies and procedures, and conducting ABC due diligences in M​​&A projects.

He also advises clients in corporate criminal litigation, especially in cases related to crimes against the Tax Order, the Environment, the National Finance System, the Public Administration, and fair competition. He has acted on several projects that required legal advice on Brazilian criminal legislation using the elaboration of memoranda, legal opinions, and revision of corporate policies to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing.

Professional Memberships

- International Bar Association (IBA)

- Instituto Brasileiro de Ciências Criminais (IBCCRIM)

- Association of Certified Fraud Investigators (ACFE)

- Legal Director of the ACFE Brazilian Chapter (2020/2021)

- Digital Compliance Committee of the Legal Ethics and Compliance Institute (LEC)

- Criminal Procedures Especial Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association, Section of São Paulo (2019/2021)

- Coordinator of the White-Collar Crimes sub-group of the Criminal Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association, Subsection of Pinheiros/SP (2019/2021)