Criminal Compliance

Value-added legal advice for implementing effective legal risk prevention systems, monitoring regulatory compliance and managing crises.


  • Our team combines the specific demands of an increasingly complex environment of international growth and technological innovation with the highest level of specialized attention and client proximity.

    We offer ongoing advice in all activities linked to crime prevention and monitoring regulatory compliance. This includes:

    • Implementing compliance models and adapting international models to the particularities of the jurisdictions where we operate.
    • Developing and making existing compliance models more sophisticated to ensure crime prevention and D&O-specific protection.
    • Developing risk mapping and analysis and other specific prevention tools and controls (anti-corruption and anti-money laundering).
    • Providing ongoing legal advice to the company’s supervisory and control body on regulatory compliance matters.
    • Regularly checking regulatory compliance models and monitoring compliance models for international bodies and multilateral banks. Preventive due diligence and pre-acquisition and post-acquisition due diligence.
    • Advising on implementing reporting channels and internal reporting systems and managing their outsourcing, including advising on reacting to non-compliance.
    • Providing procedural assurance of mitigating factors and assessing corporate compliance models.
    • Advising on certifying regulatory compliance models in line with the highest national and international standards.
    • Ensuring trade sanctions compliance, including advising on identifying risks, investigating conduct and adapting compliance programs to the requirements arising from international sanction systems.

Cuatrecasas offers knowledge, experience, pragmatism, closeness and rigour.

Chambers & Partners, 2025