Rafael Szmid

Rafael Szmid assists his clients in dealing with complex legal issues across the globe, specifically in the U.S. and Latin America. His practice focus on matters involving internal and government investigations related to transnational corruption, cartel, and other types of unlawful conduct, such as money laundering, fraud, and sexual harassment. Rafael also helps his clients build, test, and improve their compliance programs under the FCPA, UKBA, Brazil’s Clean Company Act, and antitrust laws. He has more than 12 years of experience doing this type of work.

Rafael works with some of the largest companies in the world in the technology, media, energy, petrochemicals, telecommunication, consumer goods, infrastructure, transportation, health care, and life sciences industries. He has worked as an in-house Compliance Lawyer of a Fortune 100 company covering its operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and as an advisor to the Brazilian Competition Authority’s Chair.

Rafael challenged himself to learn legal theory to support his practice, and has invested 13 years studying law in the U.S., Europe, and Brazil. He completed his Ph.D. and a Master’s Degree at the University of Sao Paulo, LL.M. at Stanford, and a visiting program at the University of Barcelona.

Regularly quoted in publications and featured at seminars and compliance courses, Rafael wrote the first book in Brazil on corporate monitors (in Portuguese, “Monitores Corporativos Anticorrupção no Brasil: Um Guia para sua Utilização no Processo Administrativo e Judicial,” Quartier Latin, 2021). His book is now used in compliance courses and by corporate monitors, prosecutors, practitioners, and scholars.