Latin Lawyer
15/4/2019
After nearly 25 years as a partner at Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados, Marcelo Trussardi Paolini has joined L O Baptista Advogados to help establish the firm’s private client sub-practice.
L O Baptista has also hired Rebecca Maduro, 41, from her previous role as an in-house counsel for Rivah Consulting and AES Brazil to reinforce its energy practice. Both lawyers made the move at the beginning of this month, upping the firm’s partner count to 22.
Paolini, 49, says he left Mattos Filho at the right time after 25 years of service, and that he is looking forward to helping to structure the firm’s private client practice. “I will fill a very strategic gap. Establishing a private client practice is a good move for such a corporate-focused firm,” Paolini explains.
Mattos Filho recently became the largest firm in Latin America by partner count after it promoted eight to the partnership. Managing partner José Eduardo Carneiro Queiroz told Latin Lawyer that he wishes Paolini well in the next step of his career. “Paolini left on very good terms with the firm. He contributed to the firm during many years. He left to pursue new professional challenges and we wish him only success,” he says.
Partner Fernando Marcondes, who has been with L O Baptista for eight years, says that Paolini’s hire is in response to a growing demand for expertise in the private client sector. “The decision was driven by the increasing complexity of family relations and the increase of the tax burden, which directly affects the estate and succession in family groups,” he says.
Marcondes is also a big name in the firm’s energy practice, which has hired Maduro, who has extensive in-house experience in the energy market. He says her integration is part of the firm’s efforts to expand in the Brazilian infrastructure market in the wake of Bolsonaro’s recent election. “We want clients to be able to benefit from an increasingly integrated infrastructure and energy practice in the face of a new market,” he says.
Maduro, who will head the energy practice, believes she will rise to the challenge. “I am looking forward to helping clients achieve new things in terms of energy and infrastructure projects, as well as helping them access better financial resources to fund these,” she explains.
She is the second partner the firm has hired for energy and infrastructure work in the past seven months. L O Baptista also expanded its corporate practice in the same month to cater to growing work demand from prominent Chinese clients.
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