Fernanda Villela

Fernanda acts in Compliance & Investigations coordinating complex investigations involving interactions with law firms outside Brazil as well as the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She has worked in crisis management, particularly during Operation Car Wash. She advises on mitigation of compliance- and anticorruption-related risks, and has acted in the due diligence for the sale of suspected tainted assets. She structures compliance programs, conducts risk analyses, and develops policies and procedures for businesses in a wide range of sectors, including listed companies. She also researches and drafts legal briefs and memorandums dealing with the complex issues involved in acquisition of tainted assets in Brazil, and prepares anticorruption clauses for SPAs and other instruments. She also has experience in matters dealing with money laundering.

In Data Protection, Cybersecurity and Digital Businesses, Fernanda assists clients in implementing data privacy and protection programs, and advises on corporate governance rules related to technology and personal data processing. She drafts policies, procedures, legal briefs and memorandums on data protection, cryptocurrencies, and other questions involving law and technology. She has experience with HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, MCI and other legislation and regulations governing data privacy and protection. She has worked with various technology companies, including in M&A transactions.