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Speed, focus on results, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and the development of individualized strategies are the guarantees of Chagas Hespanhol Advogados.
Through a versatile structure capable of facing the challenges of an ever-evolving scenario, we propose innovative solutions in a timely manner to provide our clients with legal security and peace of mind in their operations.
Chagas Hespanhol Advogados brings together a team of highly qualified professionals in various areas of work so that each process is treated in a customized way. Through a global and mature vision of connection between legal problems and economic, political, and cultural scenarios that affect them, the law firm maintains excellence in the development of its deliveries and solutions.
André Hespanhol
Hespanhol is a lawyer graduated at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), with over two decades of practice and experience in renowned law firms, having successfully acted in dozens of emblematic cases in the national scene. He was a professor of Criminal Law at the Escola Superior de Advocacia, at Universidade Cândido Mendes, and at the Fundação Educacional Serra dos Órgãos. Hespanhol began his career advising entities of organized civil society and victims of human rights violations. He was a state counselor for the Rights of Children and Teenager (conselheiro estadual dos Direitos da Criança e do Adolescente) in the State of Riode Janeiro, director of the Prison Community Council of Rio de Janeiro, and participated in the coordination of the National Human Rights Movement (Eastern Region 1 / RJ). With solid experience in complex and high-profile cases, he combines service provision with the strategic construction of scenarios that allow the overcoming of the problem through the development of new paths for crisis resolution, reestablishment, and growth.
Ciro Chagas
Chagas is a Ph.D. candidate in Criminal Law and the National Financial System at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), with a Master's degree in Law of Economic and Social Relations from Milton Campos College, specialized in Derecho Penal Económico y Teoría del Delito at the Universidad Castilla La-Mancha, in Spain, and in Tax Law at the Gama Filho University. As a teacher, he is a professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Universidade Gama Filho. Como docente, é professor de Direito Penal e Processo Penal na Universidade Estácio de Sá, a professor in Corporate Governance specialization at the same institution, and teaches courses on Compliance and LGPD adaptation. He is also a professor on Blockchain in the MBA program at the Universidade de Patos Minas (MG). Currently, at the Universidade de Patos Minas, he is conducting a Ph.D. thesis study on the regulatory process of crypto assets and anti-money laundering practices-AML. As a Compliance agent and member of the Ethics and Compliance Committee, Chagas leads the development, implementation, and monitoring of policies, code of ethics, conduct, and compliance related to anti-corruption and anti-money laundering principles.
