Topic: Strategy and management

Nader Hayaux adds ESG and corporate partners

Mexico’s Nader, Hayaux & Goebel has hired a partner from a local environmental law boutique to bolster its ESG offering, while promoting one of its corporate associates to the senior rank.

06 December 2023

Demarest adds three Lobo de Rizzo lawyers to partnership

Demarest Advogados has continued its recent streak of hiring and promoting talent by adding three lawyers from Lobo de Rizzo Advogados to the senior rank of its capital markets and M&A offerings.

05 December 2023

Mattos Filho hires BMA lawyer to insurance partnership

Mattos Filho has appointed an associate from fellow Elite firm BMA Advogados as partner, strengthening its insurance, reinsurance and private pensions group.

04 December 2023

Vella Pugliese opens its doors in Rio

Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados has added a fourth office in Brazil by launching an outpost in Rio de Janeiro, hiring an of counsel to strengthen the new outpost.

04 December 2023

Dechert LatAm arbitration team in Paris breaks away

Dechert has announced that its international arbitration group in Paris is breaking away, with global practice co-chair Eduardo Silva Romero and members of his team set to launch an independent boutique.

04 December 2023

Cuatrecasas poaches M&A co-head from Morales & Besa

In the latest of a string of hires across Cuatrecasas' Latin American offices, the firm has recruited the co-head of Morales & Besa’s corporate practice as partner in Chile.

01 December 2023

White & Case appoints local partner in Mexico City office

White & Case (Mexico) has strengthened its commercial litigation practice by promoting one of its practitioners to local partner in a global promotion round.

30 November 2023

Former Perkins Coie partner rejoins after spell at MoFo

Less than two years after leaving the firm to join Morrison & Foerster LLP, Paul Navarro has returned to Perkins Coie LLP as a partner in its Latin America practice group.

30 November 2023

Demarest adds former government official to partnership

Demarest Advogados has strengthened its public, regulatory, infrastructure and corporate investigations offerings by hiring the former executive secretary of Brazil’s Ministry of Economy as partner.

29 November 2023

The challenge of defining the perfect partner

Law firms across Latin America are reviewing and updating their approach to partner remuneration and profit-sharing by re-evaluating what it means to be the “perfect partner.” To explore this issue, Moray McLaren and Mari Cruz Taboada Lopez of Lexington Consultants discuss the main findings from a survey carried out by the LawAhead Center at the IE Law School in Madrid.

29 November 2023

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