Wednesday, 11 January 2017 by Emilio Demetriou-Jones
Brazilian firm Azevedo Sette Advogados has hired trade and competition lawyer Luciana de Oliveira Sá Pires as a consultant.
Oliveira, 40, has previously worked for BMA – Barbosa, Müssnich, Aragão, where she was assigned to work as a consultant in Brazil’s World Trade Organization dispute with Thailand. Brazil is challenging Thailand’s subsidiaries to sugar producers. She was previously a senior researcher at the São Paulo School of Economics and professor of law at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado University.
Luiz Eduardo Salles, partner at Azevedo Sette, attributes her hire to the significant increase in international trade law work his firm has experienced in the last year and a half, which he expects to continue. “We expect the pace to continue, notwithstanding the economic slowdown in Brazil, because the future of the country is tied to the deepening of its integration to global value chains,” he says.
Oliveira will continue to be based in Vienna for personal reasons. Salles says her location is an additional benefit for the trade department: “The EU is a major trade partner, and we have many clients that require Brazilian law expertise in the region.”
BMA – Barbosa, Müssnich, Aragão will not hire a replacement. Adriana Dantas leads the firm’s top-ranked trade practice.
http://latinlawyer.com/news/article/50789/azevedo-sette-strengthens-trade-competition-practice/