SiqueiraCastro has announced the arrival of six new Equity partners in 2019, across three different practice areas. Five of them were promoted from associates and one was hired from Carvalho Costa & Ribeiro Advogados.

In Criminal Law practice area, the company hired Marcos Cavalcanti Ribeiro, who was a partner at Carvalho Costa & Ribeiro Advogados. He has also worked for the prestigious criminal lawyer João Mestieri. Cavalcanti will be based in Rio de Janeiro. In São Paulo, Renata Cestari was promoted from associate to partner in the same practice area. Both of them will be working alongside senior partner Carlos Roberto Siqueira Castro and João Daniel Rassi.

Also in São Paulo, Marina Magalhães Gomes Ramacciotti was promoted in Corporate and Finance, practice area led by the CEO, Carlos Fernando Siqueira Castro.

In the Northeast region, SiqueiraCastro promoted Gabriel Silva Pinto and Rodrigo Oliveira Correia Brito, in Consumer Law practice area, as well as Luciano de Almeida Montenegro, in Labor Law. They will be based in the cities of São Luis (Maranhão State), Salvador (Bahia State) and Recife (Pernambuco State). With this promotions, the company has now 7 Partners working in the Northeast, a strategic region for the Brazilian economy and an important business hub.

"These promotions and hiring represent, at the same time, the Firm's institutional recognition for the loyalty and extraordinary performance of these dear colleagues, as well as the constant investment made in the retention of our talents and on the renewal of our partner's board", said Carlos Fernando Siqueira Castro, the company's partner and CEO.