Joyce Roysen

Joyce Roysen, founder and managing partner of Joyce Roysen Advogados Associados in São Paulo, has been named Dispute Resolution White-Collar Crime Lawyer of the Year in Brazil at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. The recognition celebrates more than three decades at the forefront of Brazilian criminal law and confirms her standing as one of the country's leading specialists in economic and corporate criminal defence, a discipline in which reputation, discretion and technical rigour are indispensable.

Ms Roysen established her firm as a boutique dedicated to the prevention and resolution of corporate conflicts, with a defined focus on economic and corporate criminal law. Rather than spreading itself across every field, the practice concentrates on white-collar and corporate criminal defence, economic criminal law and the resolution of corporate disputes, while retaining the capacity to navigate the connected areas of law that such matters inevitably touch. This deliberate specialisation allows the firm to bring concentrated expertise to some of the most sensitive and high-stakes situations that companies and their executives can face.

The firm operates on a multidisciplinary basis, applying what it describes as profound knowledge of criminal law and of the workings of the Brazilian judicial system, combined with technical support from consultants and experts. This model is well suited to modern economic crime work, where allegations frequently intersect with accounting, regulatory and corporate governance questions, and where an effective defence depends on marshalling specialist evidence alongside legal argument. Under Ms Roysen's leadership the firm advises clients on both the defensive management of investigations and prosecutions and the preventive structuring of conduct to reduce criminal exposure in the first place.

Ms Roysen's individual reputation is reflected in a sustained record of recognition from the leading legal directories. She has featured in Brazil's foremost legal rankings for criminal law specialisation since 2007, and has been ranked among the top corporate criminal law specialists in Brazil by Chambers and Partners since 2017. Best Lawyers has recognised her as a reference in corporate criminal law since 2019, and Leaders League has highlighted the firm among the prominent names in the field since 2023. The firm has also been acknowledged by Análise Advocacia Mulher for its work across a wide range of economic sectors, underlining both its breadth of client base and Ms Roysen's prominence as a woman leading a specialist practice.

Bringing together deep courtroom experience, a preventive advisory dimension and a carefully assembled team of legal and technical experts, Ms Roysen offers clients a defence practice built around the realities of contemporary economic crime. Her focus on the resolution of corporate criminal disputes, rather than litigation for its own sake, aligns closely with the interests of companies seeking to protect their reputation and continuity while responding to serious allegations. The 2024 Corporate INTL Global Award affirms her position at the summit of white-collar dispute resolution in Brazil and recognises a career defined by consistency, specialisation and the trust of a demanding client base.