Fragoso Advogados is a traditional Criminal Law Firm, which practice involves mainly the areas of Financial Crimes, in cases of major national repercussion, and the Insurance segment. It was founded in 1952 by the jurist Heleno Cláudio Fragoso, one of the most prominent criminal lawyers in the country, vice president of the Federal Council of the OAB (the Brazilian Bar Association), and defense counsel of political prisoners during the military regime.
Aligning tradition with modernity, Fragoso Advogados follows the evolution of Criminal Law, and, more recently, has been working on the repatriation of overseas funds and cybercrimes. Other fields of expertise of the law firm are financial market crimes; crimes against businesses; frauds suffered by insurance companies; money laundering; crimes against the tax order and the consumer; social security crimes, and patent and trademark infringements. Fragoso Advogados also works in the area of Criminal Compliance.