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CMS appoints 2 new Partners and 2 new Managing Associates

12 Senior Associates were also promoted

01/04/2021

Diogo Pereira (Litigation) and João Leitão Figueiredo (TMC - Technology, Media and Communications) are the 2 new partners of CMS. Joana Brito Paulo (Lusophone Africa) and Henrique Peyssonneau Nunes (Immigration) are the 2 newly appointed managing associates.

With almost 20 years of experience, João Leitão Figueiredo, who was recently elected lawyer of the year in the IP & TMT category of the Forty under 40, promoted by Iberian Lawyer, will, together with Diogo Pereira, a specialist in litigation, join the list of CMS partners.

As for Joana Brito, who is part of the Lusophone Africa team since 2019, and Henrique Peyssonneau Nunes, who joins the Immigration team within the Employment & Pensions practice and has been with CMS since the beginning of his career, both of them will assume positions of Managing Associates, with a special focus on the African market and monitoring of international clients, respectively.

12 Senior Associates were also promoted. They are António Menezes (Public Law/Energy), Catarina Jorge (Employment & Pensions), Cláudia Antunes da Silva (Litigation), Celeste Campaniço (Litigation), David Luzia Apolónia (Corporate), Diogo Mafra (Corporate), Mafalda Silva (Employment & Pensions), Manuela Costa (Litigation), Miguel Almeida e Costa (Employment & Pensions), Sara Nolasco (Employment & Pensions), Sofia Costa Lobo (Employment & Pensions) and Tiago Magalhães (Employment & Pensions).

"This appointment of new partners and managing associates reflects the recognition of the professionalism, excellence and commitment of the lawyers that make up the CMS team. It is also illustrative of the bet we make on our people so that they look at CMS as the best place to build a career of excellence," says José Luís Arnaut, Managing Partner of CMS, who adds: "in an especially complex year, and one in which CMS, in addition to having moved to Castilho 50, continued to deepen its international dynamic, we have not failed to demonstrate to our clients and partners that we have the best professionals in the market."