Wolfe Associates provides specialist advice to business leaders to solve problems, anticipate crises and navigate special risk situations which threaten the integrity and reputation of the organisation and its executives.
We assist companies and banks facing major crises threatening the organization's integrity, reputation and strategic interests. We advise on the Brazilian and international anti-corruption and anti-extortion laws.
We investigate organisational and organised crime:
Financial crime, fraud, corporate misconduct, corruption and money laundering.
Our multidisciplinary methodology comprises:
Financial, economic and legal analysis. Corporate intelligence.
Organized crime profiling and organizational theory:
Reverse management consulting and process analysis.
Corporate response:
Problem solving, extortion and crisis management response and negotiation strategy.
International asset tracing and litigation strategy.
We have many years more experience in investigations and corporate response than any other international or local firm based in Brazil.
Barry Wolfe, the Managing Partner, has blue chip international academic and professional credentials and an impeccable professional reputation.
We provide discreet counsel on managing and solving the problem.
Our approach is multidisciplinary involving legal, financial, economic, forensic accounting and criminological analysis.
Our approach is to complement and work alongside our clients and their existing international and local advisers.
We are a boutique service, accustomed to dealing with the highest levels of management and our advice is objective, direct and practical.
Managing Partner
Barry took an LL.B. with First Class Honors from Edinburgh University. He was a Graduate Fellow at Yale Law School and has an LL.M. in International Law from Magdalene College Cambridge University. He is a practicing English Solicitor and Foreign Law Consultant at the Brazilian Bar.
Barry Wolfe, is an international lawyer and criminologist with over 40 year’s experience advising senior management of international companies and banks facing major crises. He has led many major fraud investigations, including the commodities, banking, agribusiness, chemicals, commodities, agribusiness, pharmaceutical, IT, retail, telecommunications, electronic, automotive and mining sectors.
Barry is a specialist in investigation of fraud, white-collar crime and corruption; International litigation strategy, off-shore structures and asset tracing; Parallel markets and money moving; Product contamination and counterfeiting; Industrial sabotage and extortion; Criminal organization profiling; International Corporate Governance and Compliance; and Corporate response and crisis management.
His professional career began at Herbert Smith, a leading international law firm in the City of London. He has practiced international financial law in Brazil since 1986. He is a former Consultant to Control Risks Group and Director of KPMG Forensic.
Partner
Marcelo has over 25 years experience in Financial crime investigation, Forensic Accounting, Audit and Consulting, and M&A Due Diligence in the industrial, commercial and service sectors. He was Manager at PWC Forensic and Transaction Services, Manager at Infinity Group (Ethanol and Biofuels) and Manager at KPMG Forensic and Transaction Services.
He is a qualified accountant and Brazilian lawyer. He took a Bachelors Degree in Accountancy from Universidade Camilo Castelo Branco, MBA in Financial Management, Audit and Control at Fundação Getulio Vargas, and has a Law Degree from Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul.
Partner
Karen is a Brazilian lawyer and was Called to the São Paulo Bar in 2008. She is a specialist in Criminal Law, Human Rights Law and Family and Inheritance Law.
She has 17 years’ experience in investigating cases, preparing evidence, and developing and implementing successful defense strategies.
Her cases include drug trafficking, human trafficking and murder, defending victims of modern slavery, religious persecution, abuse of power, torture and discrimination. She has considerable experience in investigating cases, preparing evidence and developing and implementing successful defense strategies.
She holds an LL.B. from FMU University.
Investigations of financial crime, fraud, bribery and corruption, misconduct, negligence, mismanagement, industrial accidents, anti-trust, industrial espionage, cargo theft, modern slavery and human trafficking.
Wolfe Associates’ multidisciplinary services include:
Wolfe Associates provides technical criminologicalsupport to investigations carried out by government agencies, where suchagencies lack the necessary resources. Our expert reports are exhibited tocriminal complaints and civil pleadings We give evidence to police andprosecutors and in trails in Brazil and internationally.
Our investigations, in addition to identifyingmisconduct and quantifying losses, are also directed to inculcating ethics,integrity and transparency in financial, commercial and business relations.
We act as trusted advises to senior management of Brazilian and international companies and banks facing crises which threaten the organisation’s integrity, reputation and strategic interests.
Our corporate response services enable organisations to prevent, plan for and respond to a range of serious problems which threaten these companies conducting business in complex and hostile environments, where the legal systems cannot be relied on adequately to protect the company’s legitimate interests.
Crisis situations may result from:
Effective response:
Litigation strategy and asset tracing in national and international lawsuits.
We advise individuals and companies, both Brazilian and foreign in special situations involving litigation. Whether the client is the victim of a ponzi scheme or a party to a high value divorce, we devise and implement complex litigation strategies in Brazil and abroad, including tracing and freezing assets. We advise corporations involved in complex litigation. We act as an expert witness and provide expert opinions including assessments of improper conduct and quantification of losses resulting from corruption, negligence and mismanagement.
We provide multidisciplinary solutions tailored to the company's unique leadership style and local Brazilian corporate culture.
Companies must be prepared for and protected in the event of becoming involved, wittingly or unwittingly, in corruption, environmental and human rights investigations.
Wolfe Associates offers a range of strategic and preventative solutions enabling the company to demonstrate a top down commitment international compliance regulations.
Our methodology includes:
A series of short videos and podcasts covering topics related to:
War, Terrorism, Genocide, and International Law: Defense, Counterattack, and the Ethics of Violence
I will draw parallels between the challenges faced by leaders of organizations in the “hostile” environment that is today's Brazil, in the new global entropic context, characterized by polarity and populism, with a specific focus on current conflicts and wars. I will address topics, such as:
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Solutions for Organizations Under Threat
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