Biography: Business Crime Defence

Antenor Madruga is a partner at Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão Advogados, a full-service Brazilian firm recognised by Latin Lawyer as one of the most prestigious law firms in Brazil.

Mr Madruga heads the BM&A anti-fraud, corporate ethics practice. The practice has been involved in several FCPA cases, as well as Brazilian anti-bribery proceedings, and has a wide experience in international asset tracing and recovery. Mr Madruga is a member of FraudNet, the international network of lawyers specialised in fraud and white-collar crime.

Before joining BM&A, Mr Madruga was a career federal attorney, where he held several positions, such as national secretary of justice, director of the department of assets recovery and international legal cooperation of the Ministry of Justice, and a member of the board of the Brazilian Financial Intelligence Unit (COAF).

He holds a doctorate from the University of São Paulo and an LLM from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. His international experience includes being chairman of a group of government experts on extradition, mutual legal assistance, convened during the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and vice chairman of the second session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. He was also the head of the Brazilian delegations to the negotiations of the mutual legal assistance treaties in criminal matters between Brazil and Germany, and Spain and China, and a member of the Brazilian delegations to the MLAT treaties between Brazil and Switzerland, and the United Kingdom and the Bahamas.