Professional Experience
Tiago Caruso joined the firm in 2019 and is part of the Corporate Criminal Law group, focusing on Economic and Corporate Criminal Law cases. He acts in highly complex cases, representing companies and executives in situations of institutional crisis, involving crimes occurring within the company and against it. He advises clients drafting legal opinions and in the administrative and judicial phases of litigations. He assists companies in structuring corporate integrity programs (mainly in aspects related to criminal compliance) and in crisis management, with a focus on the criminal impacts to the corporation itself and its representatives. He develops legal-criminal strategies in cases involving frauds, tax crimes, crimes against financial system, public administration, environment, health, consumer, intellectual property, economic order and against honor, money laundering, among others.
Awards and recognition
Tiago Caruso is recognized nationally as one of most admired criminal lawyers in Brazil by Análise Advocacia 500 and internationally as a recommended criminal lawyer in Brazil by The Legal 500.
Academic Background
PhD candidate, Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). Postgraduate in Compliance from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (GVLaw). He has taken extension courses at the School of Criminal Sciences (CEDPAL) at the University of Göttingen, Germany (GAU) and others in the sub-area of Economic and Corporate Criminal Law. He was awarded visiting researcher status at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany (LMU) during his Master’s degree and at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany (HU) and the University of Lisbon, Portugal (FDUL) during his PhD.
Activities outside the office
He is currently an assistant professor in the Master’s, Postgraduation and Bachelor’s programs in Law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) and a referee for the Boletim do Instituto de Ciências Criminais (IBCCrim) and the Revista Brasileira de Ciências Criminais (RBCCrim). He is also a member of the editorial board of the Revista Magister de Direito Penal e Processo Penal and the Revista Magister de Criminologia e Vitimologia. He lectures at courses and events in Brazil on topics related to criminal law.
Publications
He is the author and co-author of books and articles published in major newspapers and scientific journals, in particular the book “Criminal liability in decisions based on technical and legal opinions”, published in an international collection by Editora Marcial Pons in 2020.
Languages
Portuguese, english, spanish, french, german and italian.
