Baker McKenzie promotes partners in Brazil and Mexico
Baker McKenzie has promoted five lawyers to partner in Mexico City, one to partner in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, and four to partner in São Paulo.
The promotions to partner are part of a total of 85 across the firm’s global offices, and which are effective from 1 July.
Across the firm’s practice groups globally, tax and dispute resolution saw the largest intake of new partners, with M&A also significantly adding to their numbers.
During financial year 2020, Baker McKenzie also added 68 lateral partner hires.
In São Paulo* the new partners are Juliana Lemos and Luciana Nobrega (pictured), in the tax practice; Giovani Tomasoni, in the projects practice, and Bruno Dreifus in the M&A practice.
In the firm’s Mexico City office, the new partners are Liliana Hernandez-Salgado, in the employment and compensation practice; Alfonso Curiel-Valtierra, in dispute resolution; Carlos Davila-Peniche and Marina Hurtado-Cruz, in the IP and technology practice, and Diana Juarez-Martinez in the tax practice. The firm’s new partner in Monterrey is Héctor Díaz Santana Iturrios, in the tax practice.
“Congratulations to all of our new partners. Welcoming 153 new partners, both home-grown and lateral, over the last 12 months is a clear sign of the importance we place in the long-term growth strategy of the Firm. I wish them all the best in their future career with Baker McKenzie,” Milton Cheng, global chair of Baker McKenzie, said.
*TRW in strategic cooperation with Baker McKenzie
