Rolim Viotti promotes four following departures to Ayres Ribeiro
11 de dezembro de 2012
Latin Lawyer
Rolim Viotti promotes four following departures to Ayres Ribeiro
Brazil’s Rolim, Viotti & Leite Campos Advogados has promoted four associates to partner after three lawyers left to form Ayres, Ribeiro, Oliveira, Jayme e Associados, a new firm with branches in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte.
Rolim Viotti announced the promotions of four associates to partner in November after two partners and an associate left to form the new firm.
The promotions will come into effect in January. The new partners are: Daniela Lara, who co-heads the telecoms and tax departments in São Paulo; Helvecio Franco Junior, a co-head of the tax and civil litigation practice areas in Belo Horizonte; Luis Gustavo Miranda, co-head of infrastructure and projects in Belo Horizonte; and Rodrigo Greco, co-head of the regulatory and telecoms departments in Brasília.
Former partners Gilberto Ayres and Elisa Ribeiro left to set up the new firm in September. Ayres Ribeiro specialises in administrative, customs, competition, litigation, tax and trade law as well as general corporate matters, and officially opened its doors on 6 November.
The partnership is made up of Gilberto Ayres and Ribeiro; David Ayres, a former associate at Rolim Viotti; Fernando Jayme, formerly a Goias state prosecutor and general counsel at the Minas Gerais state university; and Amanda Oliveira, a dean at Minas Gerais state university who has also held positions in the Ministry for Justice. The firm is supported by a further ten associates.
Gilberto Ayres explains that the decision to open a new firm was the result of arriving at “the conclusion that the legal market was in need for highly specialised law firms that could supply legal services in a more efficient and tailormade fashion, but at the same time offering the structure and security demanded by medium and large corporations.”
He adds that the firm hopes that the mixed backgrounds of its partners, spanning private practice, government and academia, will enable it to “add more value” for clients.
Tuesday, 11 December 2012 (4 months ago) by Rachel Hall