Paul Hastings hiring spree includes new Brazil office overseen by 3 former Allen & Overy partners
Following news of a record $1 billion in gross revenue in 2014, Paul Hastings is on a hiring spree.
The approximately 875-attorney firm brought in two BigLaw practice leaders this week, and is opening a new office in Brazil overseen by three partners from a Magic Circle firm in the United Kingdom, reports the Am Law Daily (sub. req.).
The new Paul Hastings team for the Brazil office includes Robert Kartheiser Jr., who is exiting as New York co-chief of Allen & Overy’s Latin American practice; Cathleen McLaughlin, who founded the firm’s Latin American practice and was in charge of its New York capital markets practice group; and Bruno Soares, a banking and infrastructure projects partner for Allen & Overy in Sao Paulo. Brazil restricts internatonal law firms from practicing local law, the article notes.
In a written statement provided to the Am Law Daily, Allen & Overy thanked the trio for their work and wished them the best.
Also joining Paul Hastings are Samuel Waxman, who served as intellectual property transactions co-chair for Shearman & Sterling’s mergers and acquisitions group and David Shine, the co-chief of Fried Frank’s M&A practice group.
