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Three firms boost partnerships
14 February 2012
In Brazil, Campos Mello Advogados increased its partnership to 19 with the promotion of a five associates in its Rio de Janeiro office. The biggest additions came from the corporate department – with Daniella Raigorodsky Monteiro, 36, Eduardo Carreirão, 38, and Marcus Vinicius Bitencourt, 34, all promoted. The tax and energy departments saw Leonardo Homsy, 39, and Luis Antonio Menezes da Silva, 35, respectively, make partner. All five promotions came into effect on the 9 February.
In Peru, the start of February saw the country’s largest firm, Muñiz Ramírez Pérez-Taiman & Olaya, promote five associates to partner, bringing the total number in the partnership to 37.
These were corporate and M&A lawyer José Ballón Espejo, 38, who worked as foreign associate at Spain’s Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira, in 1998; Héctor Figari Costa, 39, whose practice includes competition, telecoms and regulatory law; and Daniel Lovón Lillicrap, 37, whose focus is on capital markets and banking & finance work. Rolando Salvatierra Combina, 49, who specialises in electricity and administrative law, and litigation lawyer Roger Zavaleta Rodriguez, 38, were also promoted.
Elsewhere, this month also saw Mexico’s Vázquez Tercero & Zepeda Abogados announce the hire of Eduardo Gonzalez Espinosa as partner from Guadalajara–based tax boutique Ruvalcaba Villalobos y Cía. In this role, Gonzalez will head the tax and constitutional litigation practice group of the firm.
Source: Latin Lawyer
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