Ana de Brito Camacho

Practice Areas: Criminal, Sanctions and Compliance

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Ana de Brito Camacho is a professional partner and has been with Abreu Advogados since 2025, working primarily on matters related to Criminal, Sanctions & Compliance.

Since 2003, her practice has focused on litigation, initially in a more general capacity and, since 2007, increasingly specialising in criminal litigation, economic crime and white-collar crime, and administrative offences.

She has worked on several large, high-profile, and complex criminal cases, representing the interests of both corporate and individual clients.

She has also developed her practice in the area of sanctions compliance, advising leading corporate clients in sectors such as commercial distribution, broadcasting, information technology, pharmaceuticals, and banking, among others.

In this context, in addition to drafting and implementing compliance programmes, she has also provided training to corporate clients on the prevention of corruption and money laundering, as well as on the protection of whistleblowers.

She was a member of the Superior Council of the Bar Association. She also joined the Legislative Policy Office of the Bar Association, where she coordinated the Working Group for the Reform of Administrative Offences.

She is a founding member of the Forum Penal – Association of Criminal Lawyers.

Experience

Criminal litigation, both on the defence and prosecution side, with a particular focus on: white-collar crime (economic, financial or civil service), tax and social security offences, crimes against property; crimes against honour, and crimes arising from the practice of medicine (‘medical negligence’);

Administrative litigation, particularly in the following areas of regulation: health, banking, securities market, telecommunications, audiovisual and environment;

Drafting and implementation of compliance programmes focused on the prevention of money laundering and corruption, as well as the creation and implementation of whistleblower protection schemes;

Training for corporate clients on corruption prevention, money laundering and whistleblower protection schemes;

Conducting internal investigations and external audits for clients, particularly in matters related to corruption, money laundering and other economic crimes;

Litigation in other types of sanctioning proceedings, particularly in disciplinary proceedings;

Litigation in civil and commercial matters, including contractual and non-contractual civil liability and insolvency proceedings;

Representation of clients in proceedings resulting from complaints lodged with the European Court of Human Rights.

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