Raffaella Quintana, Head of White-Collar Crime at ADVANT Nctm, pioneered the integration of criminal law into multi-practice firms as a fundamental governance discipline.
Raffaella Quintana is a partner and Head of White-Collar Crime, Investigation and Compliance at ADVANT Nctm. More than 35 years ago, when she built the first criminal law team inside a large Italian multi-practice firm, she had to make two arguments simultaneously: the legal one and the cultural one. The legal argument was technical. The cultural argument was harder, persuading partners and clients that business criminal law was not a niche for handling emergencies but a fundamental governance discipline, one that belongs in the room where strategy is made, not called in after the damage is done. That argument is now settled. What she continues to build is the architecture around it.
