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Article: Merged Iberian firm looks to expand.
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- Financial News
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- March 30, 2003
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Byline: Michael Hoare
Cuatrecasas, the Spanish law firm, has merged with its Portuguese equivalent Goncalves Pereira, Castelo Branco e Associados and is considering closer ties to affiliates in Latin America.The partners at the two Iberian firms, which have had partnership agreements since 1996, finalised the merger this month. Julian Garcia Rubi, head of Cuatrecasas' Madrid office, says the tie-up is the first merger of equals between Spanish and Portuguese law firms. "It's a natural market, the Iberian peninsula," he says.
The firms will retain separate legal structures but form one partnership, with 10 Portuguese partners and 70 from Spain.
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