Mattos Filho in the media

Mattos Filho has announced seven lawyers have been promoted to the firm’s partnership. The new partners work across six different practice areas: litigation & arbitration, finance, asset management services & investment funds, infrastructure & energy, corporate/M&A, and tax.

Six of the seven new partners are women. In the last five years, internal partner promotions at the firm have been practically even in terms of men (31) and women (29) – 52% and 48%, respectively.

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Brazilian Elite firm Mattos Filho has promoted seven associates to partner across several practice areas, just weeks after Pedro Whitaker de Souza Dias took the helm as the firm’s managing partner.

The lawyers joined the firm’s senior rank today. Joana Pimentel, Maria Fernanda Fidalgo, Ligia Godoy, Natália Mauad, Marcelo Guimarães and Natalie Matos are based in São Paulo, whilst Natália de Santis works at the firm’s Rio de Janiero outpost. The firm now counts 144 partners and increases the number of women in its senior rank to 36.1%. According to the LL250 Performance Index, women make up on average 40.4% of partnerships in Brazil.

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Mattos Filho announced that Pedro Whitaker de Souza Dias (pictured) take up his role as the firm’s new managing partner effective Wednesday, April 3. Following a ten-month leadership transition period with former managing partner and firm founder Roberto Quiroga, Dias will now lead the firm’s management for the next three years. His goal is to continue the legacy of the founding partners, strengthen business development, and ensure the firm’s stability and long-term success.

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“When you think that you have nothing else left to achieve, you are wrong: you always need to think about what more can be done,” says Pedro Whitaker de Souza Dias, Mattos Filho’s new managing partner. Instead of resting on his laurels, Dias has his sights set on opportunities and strategic growth for Brazil’s largest law firm.

Dias officially took over as managing partner of the Elite firm today, replacing Roberto Quiroga.

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Brazil has traditionally taken a conservative stance on betting. but recent legal developments in the country have opened up new opportunities for the sector. The Brazilian market has become one of the most attractive for the global betting industry, thanks to the legalization of fixed-odds betting on sports and online games.

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The deadline for holders of offshore investments to register for the option of updating the value of their assets by paying income tax at a reduced rate of 8% starts on Friday (15). The standard rate, according to the law passed by Congress in 2023, is 15%. On Wednesday (13), the Federal Revenue Service released the details of how the new tax system works via Normative Instruction 2,180.

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The Petrobras dividend crisis highlights a problem in the company’s governance, revealing a rift between the board of directors and the management team that does not bode well for the oil company, specialists in corporate governance and law told Valor. These frictions are the result of political interference that undermines the management of the state-run company, they say.

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Brazil is betting big on gambling after nearly a century of restrictions, upping the ante for law firms to guide players in the sector on how to do business in one of the world’s largest and most complex economies.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a law in December that regulates fixed-odds betting in Brazil, where online wagers have flourished in a gray area since sports bets were legalized in 2018—undoing a prohibition in place since the 1940s.

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The discussion around environmental, social and governance questions has gained significant traction in the Brazilian market since 2020, garnering the attention of regulatory bodies in particular and sparking extensive debates and discussions.

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Latin Lawyer is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s Diversity Initiative of the Year Award: Mattos Filho for its support of Jewish and Muslim staff in light of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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