Partner headcount at one of the country's biggest firms tops 55 following promotions and a recent spate of lateral hires | 8mos

Miriam Signor will head up project finance and project development at the firm | 9mos

Baker McKenzie, Cadwalader, McDermott and Steptoe & Johnson among first to fall in to line as firms battle to retain associates | 1yr

Covid and Cybersecurity-related rifts seen as biggest threats, Baker McKenzie report shows | 1yr

First of new series of Law Over Border guides showcases fast-developing fashion law | 1yr

Four partners and one senior associate set to advance Campos Mello's environmental and sustainability work | 1yr

Madrid-based firm adds five partners in Brazil and one in Costa Rica | 2yrs

Tauil & Chequer strengthens environmental practice with return of partner Luiz Gustavo Bezerra who helped establish practice in 2014. | 3yrs

Judges benefit from political spat as Brazil's outgoing president gives significant pay rise to judges in snub to successor. | 4yrs

A Brazil office expands the consultancy firm's Latin American offer. | 4yrs

Linklaters and Lefosse Advogados advises on the deal which is going ahead despite Brazilian company Marfrig's US beef ban. | 4yrs

A $50 million settlement with Britain's largest pension fund, followed a previous $2.95 billion deal agreed earlier this year. | 4yrs

The Brazilian law firm has joined forces with MASP to show the sexually-themed works of French post-Impressionist artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. | 5yrs

Dentons has plans to form an alliance with Brazilian firm Vella Pugliese Buosi Guidoni - well known for its civil litigation work on high-profile cases and its work with local companies on M&A. | 5yrs

Much of Brazil came to a standstill on Friday as demonstrators took to the streets in a general strike to protest proposed changes to labour laws and the pension system. | 5yrs

Mayer Brown's Brazilian arm has opened a new office in the country's capital and hired a former attorney general and confidant of ousted president Dilma Rousseff as a partner in its litigation and compliance practice. | 6yrs

A Brazilian judge has ordered that the passports of US Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen be seized, noting 'possible divergences' in their accounts of an armed robbery last weekend. | 6yrs

The Allen & Overy partner who used to be head of its Dutch practice has been charged by the Brazilian Public Prosecutor's Office in relation to the long-running investigation into oil giant Petrobras. | 7yrs

A Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered telecommunications providers to block all access to the WhatsApp phone-messaging application for 48 hours throughout Brazil, as a punishment for WhatsApp's refusal to communicate with the court. | 7yrs