Rafael Tucherman, the founding partner of the firm, has been a criminal lawyer for 20 years.

Graduated from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, one of the most prestigious Law Schools in Brazil, and specialized in Criminal Business Law in a program sponsored by University of Coimbra, Portugal, Rafael worked in two large criminal firms in that city before moving to São Paulo in 2003.

In the main financial and business center of Brazil, Rafael was a partner at Ráo, Cavalcanti e Pacheco Advogados (former office of the late Marcio Thomaz Bastos, former Minister of Justice) until 2009, when he founded – with Dora Cavalcanti and Augusto de Arruda Botelho – Cavalcanti & Arruda Botelho Advogados. In 2018, he opened his sole practice Rafael Tucherman Advocacia Criminal. Rafael is also one of the founding directors of Innocence Project Brasil, the Brazilian version of the Innocence Project, which is dedicated to investigating and reversing wrongful convictions across the country.

In his professional career, Rafael has worked in some of the most important criminal cases in the country in the last two decades, especially defending executives of large Brazilian and multinational companies in the areas of civil construction, infrastructure, agriculture, livestock, finance and banking, with constant dialogue with law firms in other specialties and colleagues in several countries.

In addition to his vast experience and extensive knowledge of the criminal area and related topics – financial, tax, environmental, antitrust and administrative law – Rafael is widely respected for his discretion, depth in the analysis of cases and full dedication to each of his clients, which explains the many successful cases in which he has acted.

To ensure that the founding partner is in charge of all cases and remains available to clients full-time, the firm carefully selects its cases, whether counseling defendants or as an assistant to the Prosecutors’ Office.