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Campos Mello welcomes five senior associates to the partnership
10 February 2012
Senior associates Daniella Raigorodsky Monteiro (Corporate), Eduardo Carreirão (Corporate), Leonardo Homsy (Tax), Luis Antonio Menezes da Silva (Energy) and Marcus Vinicius Bitencourt (Corporate) are the new partners of the firm. As a result, the firm now has 19 partners and more than 60 associates in its offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Daniella Raigorodsky Monteiro joined the firm in 2007 and has an extensive experience in the areas of corporate, mergers and acquisitions, finance and capital markets, debt restructuring and project finance.
New partner Eduardo Carreirão joined the firm in 2010 and practices in different areas of law, with special emphasis in corporate, foreign investments and mergers and acquisitions.
Also in the corporate team, and with the firm since 2005, Marcus Vinicius Bitencourt has an extensive practice in the areas of corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions.
Luis Antonio Menezes da Silva practices in different areas of law, with emphasis in oil and gas, corporate and foreign investments, with longtime experience in corporate matters as well as with other types of contracts and projects. He joined the firm in 2010.
Leonardo Homsy joined the firm in 2007 and has extensive practice in tax planning and tax consulting, with special emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and foreign investments.
All the new partners are based in the Rio de Janeiro office of Campos Mello Advogados.
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