Resende Ribeiro & Reis Advogados provides expert legal assistance in the criminal area, in all Brazilian jurisdictions. The firm’s experts work not only in actions related to traditional Criminal Law, but also in actions arising from a new conception of Criminal Law, including environmental, tax, financial, economic, competition, social security, bankruptcy, and money laundering crimes.

The main services provided by this department are:

. Advising and representing clients in criminal investigations;

. Representing clients in criminal proceedings, including sentence enforcement;

. Drafting criminal reports and submitting them to the proper agencies;

. Acting as prosecution assistant in criminal actions;

. Filing private criminal actions;

. Urgent criminal advocacy, with around-the-clock assistance for monitoring of urgent restrictive measures, such as immediate arrests, motions for provisional release, motion for habeas corpus, seizure, sequestration, and others.