Rafael Maia Ehmke

Main Responsibilities:
Reporting to the Managing Counsel of Anti-Bribery and Corruption & Anti-Money Laundering (ABC/AML), supporting the various teams within Shell Ethics & Compliance Office (SECO) in legal and ethics & compliance matters on a global basis.
Analysing and providing advice related to various international and local laws relevant to SECO.
Driving ABC/AML projects, aiming to achieve the best solutions to prevent risks to Shell organisation, based on the data analysed and international and local laws and principles.
Acting as a Subject Matter Expert, liaising with a range of stakeholders to resolve issues, provide training and give guidance where required.
Reviewing memorandums regarding transactions operated by Shell on a global basis, providing support to the business requesters based on Shell's ABC/AML policy and international and local regulations.
Analysing internal corporate investigations to identify potential ABC/AML breaches.
Courses & Trainings:
Fundamental AML - Dow Jones - April 2020

Managing a team of Group Screening Service (GSS) Analysts and Senior Analysts. The team provides a third party screening service to the Shell Group to assess counterparty risks related to money laundering, bribery corruption, tax evasion, trade controls including terrorist financing or other related financial crimes.
Covering the planning and organization of the team's work, to engage and enable team members to execute work efficiently and effectively, and to maintain interfaces with key stakeholders from onshore/offshore counterparts and others; providing first-line supervision and leadership for the team.
Delivering screening assessments in a process compliant way and within agreed timescale and KPIs. Ensuring screening reports are recorded accurately and communicated appropriately.
Acting as the Subject Matter Expert for screening searches and undertake non-standard searches that are either complex, commercially sensitive, strictly confidential or involve a new set of circumstances not previously encountered.
Communicating team performance status and needs to the GSS Service Lead and provide monthly service level metrics details.
Managing the team’s involvement in programmes of internal and external audit, information management and other Compliance reviews.
Identifying process improvements or control gaps and resolutions. Participation in major change programs if required.
Supporting the Service Lead to develop & enhance these services to build stakeholder value by centralising & standardising group-wide ethics & compliance support services.

Performing due diligence reviews on suppliers, contractors, commercial partners, agents, intermediaries and others on a global basis, in a way that meets Shell’s internal and external ethics & compliance obligations.
These obligations include the Shell General Business Principles, AntiMoney Laundering, AntiBribery & Corruption, Global Export Controls and Code of Conduct requirements, and numerous national and supranational statutory regulations, enforcement agencies guidelines, accepted bestpractice and financial & reputational riskreduction and mitigation.
Analysing and interpreting research results to come to a conclusion that gives direction, advice and guidance to the search requestor.
Becoming a Subject Matter Expert for one or more subprocesses, liaising with a range of stakeholders to resolve issues, providing training and guidance where required.
Supporting the team, not only in Krakow, Poland, but also the team members in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Glasgow, Scotland, checking documents in general, translating documents in Portuguese (occasionally in Spanish), and giving advice regarding documents and legal matters.
Supporting in team management, team performance review, conducting team meetings, maintaining service quality, managing interface with other departments and supporting the team with continuous improvement matters.
Successfully supporting the migration process of the compliance activities from Glasgow, Scotland, to Krakow, Poland.
Taking part as Focal Point in special Research & Development projects in Brazil, performing Due Diligence screenings on the contractor companies and providing support and advice to the stakeholders involved.
Being nominated by the responsible Line Manager as Deputy Team Leader and selected for Shell Leaders Academy cycle 2018.

Courses & Trainings:
Shell Leaders Academy cycle 2018 - from May 2018 to December 2018

International Hotel Chain.

Main Responsibilities:
Analyzing all types of contracts signed by the Chain and the risks involved, in order to ensure legal certainty in all negotiations and contracts with third parties.
Advising all areas of the business in legal matters in order to ensure that the decisions and procedures adopted are in compliance with the law.
Recommending internal procedures with preventive purposes to maintain the Chain activities according to the law and avoid losses.
Analyzing situations that could generate potential delinquency, making recommendations to the areas involved, in order to avoid bad debts; promoting judicial and pre-judicial recovery of debts.
Coordinating outsourced law firms, following lawsuits and giving the necessary advice according to the case.
Interface with public agencies, preparing administrative defenses when necessary.
Drafting and reviewing documents involving relevant legal aspects.

Main achievements:
Development of different types of model contracts for use in commercial agreements by several areas of the Chain.
Implementation of resolutions for controllers and financial departments seeking to avoid bad debts and risk prevention regarding credit release.

Automotive, consortium management, car rental and insurance broker business group.

Main Responsibilities:
Coordinating the corporate legal department, providing legal advice to all sectors of the Group, with main focus on: risk prevention; litigation; contract drafting, reviewing and management; interface with outsourced law firms; credit recovery; relationship with customers.
Representing the Group as a lawyer in several lawsuits.

Main achievements:
Implementation and development of revolving credit liberation contracts to retailers with guarantees.
Development of negotiation strategies and debt agreements, focusing on recovering the credit already provisioned resulting from legal collections.
Creation and implementation of procedures aiming resumption of real estate guarantees of delinquent consortium plans.
Development of periodic reports with the outsourced law firms, aiming positioning the Board and provision of litigation costs by the accounting department.
Drafting corporate resolutions to guide the activities of sales and collection sectors, seeking standards to prevent possible lawsuits.

Legal Services Firm.

Main responsibilities:
Supervising team specialized in bank credit recovery, focusing on legal collections and repossession.
Advising the contracting companies in litigation, focusing on consumer lawsuits, enforcement of bonds, legal collections and debt negotiation.
Main achievements:
Effective participation in the achievement of credit recovery goals, ranking the firm among the three (3) ones with the best result in the country for the most important client, a large financial institution.
Monthly achievement of individual targets set by the contracting financial institutions, contributing decisively in the classification of the local branch as the best in the country