David Rechulski

Experience

David Rechulski is the founder and managing partner of David Rechulski, Advogados, a renowned Brazilian criminal law firm established in 2004. He has over 35 years of professional experience specializing in corporate criminal law, criminal compliance, strategic crisis management, and sanctioning administrative law. Rechulski is recognized for his personal involvement in complex and high-profile criminal cases involving high-ranking executives and senior officers, offering tailor-made, creative, and strategic legal solutions. Under his leadership, the firm has developed extensive expertise in defending clients in sensitive criminal matters and advising on criminal compliance programs to mitigate potential liabilities. His reputation for rigorous ethics, discretion, and strategic quality has established him as one of the most admired and respected criminal lawyers in Brazil.

Specialty

David Rechulski specializes in corporate criminal law, criminal compliance, and white-collar crime, including fraud and strategic crisis management. His practice predominantly involves advising national and multinational corporations on criminal risk management and compliance, developing and reviewing criminal compliance programs, and managing internal investigations and crises with a focus on mitigating criminal liabilities for executives and managers. The firm’s expertise includes litigation strategies for defending clients under criminal investigation or criminal charges. Rechulski is also noted for his work in sanctioning administrative law, combining law, strategy, and crisis management in his practice.

Highlights

• David Rechulski is the only lawyer to have been ranked in 1st place for 19 consecutive years by the most important Brazilian publication – Análise Advocacia – as one of the most admired lawyers in Specialized Criminal Law, and he is among only five lawyers in the country to have been recognized in every edition of the publication.

• Rechulski is also a compliance specialist—having been recognized by Forbes Brasil as one of the first professionals to work in this field in Brazil in the early 2000s—and an expert in strategic crisis management.

• David Rechulski, Advogados is the only specialist law firm ranked by the renowned international publication Chambers and Partners in the inaugural Crisis Management category in Brazil (2022), and it was again recognized in the Brazil and Global editions in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

  The publication noted that, in the view of its clients, “the firm is extraordinary in crisis management, as well as in other areas in which it operates,” and that “David Rechulski, Advogados’ greatest differentiator is its preventive practice, anticipating and avoiding issues that could trigger a crisis.”

  With specific regard to founding partner David Rechulski, also ranked first, the publication stated that “[he] stands out due to his deep knowledge of strategic matters and crisis management.”