The Latin American Lawyer September 2018 LATAM MAGAZINE SEPT18 | Page 11

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Major Brazilian firms on recruitment drive as technology and
corporate work increases
Major players boosting
practices to meet demand
from technology businesses
after Brazil pledged to make
significant investment in sector
– meanwhile, flow of big-ticket
M&A work continues
Increases in technology-related
matters, as well as corporate
work, in the last 12 months has
resulted in leading law firms in
Brazil recruiting lawyers to boost
their M&A and technology media
and telecommunications (TMT)
practices.
Growth at Pinheiro Neto
Advogados, which has 395
lawyers (including 95 partners),
has been largely driven by a
surge in technology-related
instructions in 2018. T