
Tiago Souza de Resende
Founding Partner
Tiago Souza de Resende is one of the founding partners of the firm and is responsible for the Criminal and Administrative Law practice, leading specialized teams in each field.
Within the scope of Criminal Law, Tiago has extensive experience with high-complexity cases, having worked on major operations and cases regarding financial and tax crimes, money laundering, corruption, environmental offenses, and other criminal procedures, representing clients across multiple business sectors. Furthermore, Tiago also has a prominent role in Corporate Criminal Law, dealing with fraud cases and internal investigations.
Regarding Administrative Law, Tiago, alongside a specialized legal team, provides advisory and consultancy services to clients on public biddings, government contracts, public tenders, landmark designation procedures, administrative easements, expropriation, and other procedures. Furthermore, he also has a strong presence in both judicial and extrajudicial litigation, representing individuals and companies in public civil procedures, administrative misconduct cases, disciplinary proceedings, special account audits and regulatory investigations.
Areas Of Expertise:
• Criminal Law;
• Administrative Law;
• Sports Law;
• Electoral Law.
Education:
• Bachelor of Laws from Centro Universitário Metodista Izabela Hendrix Law School;
• Specialization degree on Public Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais;
• Specialization degree on Criminal Science from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais.
• Specialization degree on Economic Criminal Law from Instituto dos Advogados de São Paulo – IASP , in partnership with University Pompeu Fabra.
Practice:
• Member of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Science;
• Former Chief Auditor of the 3rd Disciplinary Committee of the Tribunal de Justiça Desportiva de Minas Gerais;
• Former Professor of Criminal Law at Centro Universitário UNA ;
• Member of Instituto dos Advogados de Minas Gerais ;
• Coordinator of the Criminal Law Committee at the Centro de Estudos das Sociedades de Advogados – CESA/MG .
Foreign Language:
• English.