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Hogan Lovells contributes to the GCR Foreign Direct Investment Regulation Guide
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23 December 2021
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LanguagesEnglish, Portuguese, Spanish
Practice groupLitigation, Arbitration, and Employment
Rafael Szmid is “a rising star in this area,” who is praised by clients as being “very technical, charming and hands on.”
Who’s Who Legal, 2021
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.
Winner of the Client Choice Award (in association with Lexology)
Competition
Future Leader, Investigations, Global Investigation Review
Who’s Who Legal
Future Leader, Competition, Global Competition Review
Who’s Who Legal
Shortlisted for a Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award
University of Sao Paulo
Seymour Mintz Excellence Awards for Good Citizenship
Hogan Lovells
Prof. Dr. Paulo Freire honors awards for antitrust paper
PUC-SP
IBRAC/TIM Antitrust Writing Awards
IBRAC
Education
Ph.D., University of São Paulo, 2020
LL.M., Stanford Law School, 2020
Master's degree, University of São Paulo, 2016
Law Degree, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010
University of Barcelona, Advanced Degree in Spanish Law, 2009
Memberships
International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors
Bar admissions and qualifications
New York
Brazil
Advised corporations in transnational investigations of corruption and cartel, including one of world's largest electric utility in an investigation arising out of the "Operation Car Wash."
Coordinator of several high-profile internal investigations involving allegations of corruption, cartel, fraud, and other unlawful conduct in the U.S. and in Latin America.
Advised multinational companies in setting up anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, and antitrust compliance programs, and undertaking risk assessments, third-party due diligences, and trainings.
Advised clients worldwide on the complexities of 50+ transactions in Latin America, including on anti-corruption, antitrust, and corporate governance issues.
Advised United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes in connection with educational program on fighting corruption and cartels.
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Registered Content
23 December 2021
Awards and Rankings
04 August 2021
News
23 October 2020
Hogan Lovells Publications
12 November 2018
Hogan Lovells Publications
12 November 2018
Published Works
21 June 2017