Between January 31st and February 2nd, the IBA (International Bar Association) Arbitration, Business Crime, and Criminal Law committees held the conference ‘When arbitration meets crime’ at the Renaissance Hotel, in São Paulo.

The event was supported by the IBA Asset Recovery and Anti-Corruption committees, and the IBA Latin American Regional Forum, in addition to the IBA Litigation committee, which brings together around 80.000 lawyers from the main law firms around the world, covering 170 countries.

TozziniFreire was one of the event co-hosts and played a main role in the panel “From fake arbitrations to awards based on fraudulent evidence”, which had the participation of our Managing Partner Fernando Serec and Adriana de Buerba, partner at the firm Perez-Llorca, from Spain.

Several other topics were discussed during this event, such as:

• Discovery of criminal offences by the arbitral tribunal;

• Challenges in sport arbitration (match fixing);

• Due diligence and red flags to prevent and handle frauds;

• Fake arbitrations;

• Parallel arbitration / criminal proceedings and the use of evidence; and

• Annulment, revision, enforcement of an arbitral award tainted with fraud.

Check it out some photos from the event below.