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Corporate Criminal Law

Corporate Criminal Law

Due to an increased awareness of criminal risks that is spreading throughout the world, criminal law has taken a central role in corporate development at the national and international level.

In response to this situation, our Corporate Criminal Law team provides advice focused on all matters related to criminal law and procedure, and seeks to create risk prevention programs to avoid criminal situations, or the correct reaction to such situations. With these actions we intend to prevent economic and reputational damage that may be irreparable.

Our team develops policies for the prevention and management of criminal risk, as well as advice related to crimes committed against our clients or during the performance of their activities. In these cases, we provide strategic planning for the management of these situations, as well as representation in any criminal procedure that may arise. We have strategic partnerships with forensic investigators and crisis management public relations firms, which help us support the specific needs of our clients.

Our services include:

  • Analysis of internal audits to determine the occurrence of criminal activities.
  • Consulting services in matters of compliance related to corruption, fraud, money laundering and financing of terrorism prevention
  • Consulting services for the effective occurrence of crime within a company.
  • Advisory to natural persons.
  • Advice in the selection of contractors for the provision of forensic investigation services.
  • Strategic litigation.
  • Drafting of criminal complaints.
  • Judicial representation of our clients in criminal procedures.
  • Criminal defence services when related to the development of businesses.

As added value we make part of CMS Dispute Resolutions team, offering our clients solutions to all their needs in the field throughout the world.


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26/12/2023
Smear campaigns in social networks: A criminal law issue?
They use fake accounts, get grouped by topics of interest, choose hours of high traffic, assign hashtags to be identifiable, and attack. Companies, public figures, and some State entities are their favorite...
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Distribution of intimate information and its constitutional and criminal...
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Defending the field: Compliance policies to keep corruption away from Colombian...
The Bolivian Soccer Federation (FBF) decided to cancel the championship of the Professional Division in view of the complaints in which allegedly several matches were fixed within a corruption scandal...
28/08/2023
Pretrial Detention Measures and the Scope of Freedom Restriction
According to the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Justice, the fundamental right to liberty is one of the guiding principles in a criminal procedure. However, this principle has limitations...
25/07/2023
Be careful with your data
The Convention on Cybercrime was entered into in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, on November 23, 2001. This Convention was signed by the States belonging to the Council of Europe plus Canada, Japan...
27/03/2023
What role do victims have in the investigation of a crime?
24/01/2023
Progress on issues related to the re-socialization of the prison population...
One of the National Government's main flags for this year is to advance a reform of the justice system and of the criminal procedure and penitentiary legislation. To this end, the Minister of Justice...
12/10/2022
What is the extinction of domain in Colombia?
The extinction of domain is a judicial process, through which the State reclaims the property owned by persons who (i) obtained it illegally or (ii) have used it to commit illegal activities direct or...
06/04/2022
Asset Forfeiture in cryptoassets
The general use of cryptocurrencies in the future is imminent, which implies the need to implement rigorous control measures to prevent them from being used as a mechanism for illicit operations. In fact...
11/01/2022
Social control through more drastic criminal punishments (Critical analysis...
On December 22nd of 2021, the Senate and the House of Representatives approved the Bill 266/21S, also known as the Citizen Security Act. The purpose of this Bill is "the strengthening of Citizen Security...
17/08/2021
Environmental Crimes Law: a significant progress in Colombia regarding...
In response to the international and Colombian society's call to strengthen the environmental protection, the Congress of the Republic approved, and the President enacted Law 2111 of 2021. In accordance...
27/01/2021
Civil judicial forfeiture over goods of lawful origin and without connection...
On August 19, 2020, the Constitutional Court delivered its most recent decision related to the Civil Judicial Forfeiture Code (Act No. 1708 of 2014). This judicial review judgment (C-327, 2020) proclaimed...