Latin Counsel | Martha Araujo Hager

Martha Araujo Hager

Associate

Diaz Reus

Martha is an international lawyer licensed to practice in Florida, New York and Brazil. She was born in Brazil to a family of attorneys and distinguished judges. Her career started as a fulltime clerk at the highest Criminal Court of Appeals in São Paulo, Brazil, while attending the Brazilian five-year law school program. Upon earning her first law degree, Martha passed the Brazilian bar exam on first attempt and subsequently, the prestigious exam to be a prosecutor for the State of São Paulo (Ministério Público de São Paulo).

In Brazil, Martha successfully tried over 30 cases before the jury in addition to trying civil and criminal cases through the traditional Brazilian system of bench trials.

In the U.S., Martha’s practice focuses on white collar cases often involving multiple international jurisdictions and advises clients in parallel U.S. and Brazilian proceedings. Her law firm experience in the U.S. includes international arbitration and litigation; applications for assistance to foreign and international tribunals and to litigants under 28 U.S. Code § 1782; conducting legal research, drafting Answers, Complaints, motions and memoranda, discovery requests and responses. In her previous role as an associate attorney, Martha assisted senior attorneys in preparation for hearings, mediations, arbitration, meetings and negotiations with the Department of Justice, the FBI and Secret Service.

Martha has 30 years of experience in white collar, fraud and corruption: (a) for a decade in Brazil, as a civil and criminal state prosecutor; (b) at the United Nations; (c) at the World Bank Group; and (d) at the International Monetary Fund.

Martha is an active member of the American Bar Association, International Criminal Law Committee, where she contributes to resolutions seeking international criminal accountability of certain entities and individuals for the atrocities committed in Ethiopia since 2020.

Martha is fluent in Portuguese and English and a stubborn lifelong student of Spanish and French.

Arbitration
Litigation

The University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida
- JD – Juris Doctor, 2022 (with honors)
- L.L.M., Master of Laws in Transnational Law, 2022
- Recipient of the Francisco Garcia-Amador Scholarship
Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas
- L.L.M., Master of Laws in Comparative and International Law, 2005
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Faculdade de Direito, São Paulo, Brazil
- Bachelor of Laws, 1992 (equivalent to the U.S. Juris Doctorate, J.D.)
American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C., 2024
- U.S. and International Anti-Corruption Law Program
- Stolen Assets Recovery Law and Practice Certificate