Tainá Castro joined Gryphon in 2021 as a senior associate with Gryphon’s due diligence team, where she specializes in anti-money laundering (AML) investigations on public entities, high-profile individuals, business intelligence, and political risk cases.

Tainá is a criminal lawyer in Brazil and has experience working in complex federal, state, and county-level investigations on high-profile individuals and entities for various industries in the U.S. She holds a Bachelor’s of Laws from Centro Universitário de Brasilia and completed her graduate studies in Criminal Law and Criminal Proceedings at Instituto de Direito Público (IDP). She also holds an M.A. in Regional Studies – Latin America from Columbia University, where she focused her studies on Latin American politics, public policy and the anti-corruption agenda.

Areas of Expertise: Anti-bribery and Corruption Compliance, Know your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering Due Diligence, Financial Crime Compliance