Avelino Rodrigues

As a leader in Kaufman Rossin’s Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services team, Avelino “Vino” Rodrigues brings more than 25 years of practice experience to clients on fraud, litigation, regulatory and other matters.

He provides advisory services including FCPA violations consulting, fraud investigations, financial due diligence, litigation consulting, complex accounting, auditor malpractice and audit defense, anti-money laundering (AML) investigations and evaluation of related programs and regulatory compliance services. He has extensive experience serving clients throughout the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. Avelino has conducted audit defense work on some of the largest fraud cases in Latin America on behalf of two of the Big 4 accounting firms.

Avelino worked on assignments for Fortune 500- level clients in various industries. Prior to joining Kaufman Rossin, he was with an international consulting firm, where he led their Latin American Investigations practice. Before that, he was at one of the Big 4 accounting firms for 12 years and formed part of their forensic and quality review practice.

Avelino is a founding board member of the South Florida Chapter of the Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) and a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in Florida and is also Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF).

Avelino has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a master’s degree in Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Curacao, he is fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch.