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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP announced yesterday it will open an office in São Paulo, Brazil. This will be the firm’s eleventh office worldwide, and its first in Latin America.

According to the press release at the firm’s website, the São Paulo office will serve to expand Milbank’s Latin American Practice Group, and the firm’s already strong international capacitiy in M&A, capital markets and project finance.

Andrew Belá Jánszky will join the firm as Managing Partner, and Tobias Stirnberg is expected to join as partner, both in the new São Paulo office.

“We are delighted to have Andrew and Tobias join us in São Paulo,” said Mel M. Immergut, Chairman of Milbank. “Both are outstanding attorneys, and as the senior member of the team, Andrew is a highly regarded attorney with a broad base of experience; his counsel and services in a wide range of transactions are highly sought after. We are confident that our clients will benefit from Andrew’s and Tobias’ collective years of experience in Latin America.”

“The opening of an office in São Paulo underscores Milbank’s commitment to the Latin American market,” said Michael L. Fitzgerald, Chair of Milbank’s Corporate, Securities and Latin America Practice Groups. “The firm has been active in the region since the 1920s, and establishing an office there reflects our intent to continue working in the region for years to come.”

For 140 years, law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has provided innovative legal solutions to many of the world’s largest, most complex, corporate transactions and litigation. The firm’s clients range from prominent multinational financial, industrial and commercial enterprises to governments, institutions and individuals. The Firm is headquartered in New York, with offices in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing.

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