Salim Jorge Saud Neto
Partner
salim.saud@saudlaw.com
T +55 21 3558-0510
M +55 21 99736-1900
“I was impressed by his technical skills”
-Chambers & Partners Brazil 2024
“he’s a legal luminary”
-Legal500 Brazil 2024
“Amazing lawyer’ and ‘brilliant mind”
-Legal500 2019 Latin America
“One of the best anti-corruption lawyers in Brazil”
-Legal500 2018 Latin America
Recommended by Chambers & Partners,
The Legal 500, and Leaders League
Salim Saud Neto is recognized as one of the leading professionals in the field, with 20 years of experience in law firms throughout the Americas, including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, New York, and Houston. Salim has advised in complex multijurisdictional corporate and M&A transactions and worked in major investigations and enforcement matters, including some of the largest corruption scandals in history. Mr. Saud has engaged in the negotiation of leniency agreements, being responsible for the first global settlement involving Brazilian and US authorities, represented clients before enforcement authorities, conducted internal investigations, assisted clients in connection with Congressional Investigations, developed and implemented compliance programs and advised clients on general compliance matters.
Salim Saud is also a lecturer on several topics relating to compliance in Brazil and abroad, and teaches anti-corruption compliance at the prestigious universities Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-RJ) and University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He served as a professor at Ibmec-Rio de Janeiro University and, at the invitation of the Brazilian Bar, teaches Compliance and Successor Liability in M&A at the post-graduate course of the Brazilian Bar, Rio de Janeiro Section.
Education
Columbia University, LLM; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
Parker School Certificate of Achievement in International and Comparative Law, Director Columbia Latin America Business and Law Association
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent)
Admissions
Brazil
New York
US District Court for the Southern District of New York
Languages
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Experience
- Lead Brazilian counsel in the negotiation of the TechnipFMC global settlement with the CGU, AGU and MPF and US Authorities
- Conducted internal investigations for several companies in different fields, namely: luxury goods, insurance, oil & gas, oil & gas services, tobacco, consumer products, infrastructure, ports and airports, construction, power.
- Successfully assisted a multinational food industry corporation in an administrative proceeding under the Anti-Corruption Law
- Assisted a financial institution in connection with Congressional Investigation
- Assisted several companies in connection with police investigation
Professional Activities
- Professor, Anticorruption Compliance Program at Getulio Vargas University (FGV – RJ).
- Lecturer, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).
- Lecturer, Compliance Program of the Post Graduate Course of, Brazilian Bar (Rio de Janeiro), since 2017.
- Lecturer, Internal Investigations,
- Lecturer, FCPA Conference, Washington DC, 2017 – 2024.
- Lecturer, International Compliance Congress and Regulatory Summit, São Paulo, 2015 – 2025.
- Lecturer, FCPA and the Life Sciences Industry, New York, June
- Lecturer, Andean FCPA Conference, Bogota, Colombia, November
- Lecturer, 7th Global Forum on Anti-Corruption Compliance in High Risks Markets, Washington DC, July 2016.
- Lecturer, Ethisphere’s Latin America Ethics Summit, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 2015 and 2016.
- Lecturer, United Nations High-Level Meeting for the development of the Oil & Gas Industry, Doha, 2007.