Starting Jan. 1, Eduardo Leite will transition into a new role at Baker & McKenzie as chair emeritus.
In this position, Leite will be based in New York and focus on building the firm in New York and Latin America, bringing on lateral hires and integrating recent hires.
Baker & McKenzie currently has 4,600 lawyers in 77 offices in 47 countries, the firm said.
The move will become official tomorrow at a firm partners meeting in Barcelona where Leite will hand over the reins to Rawlinson.
Leite said that he hopes to dial it back in 2017, but keep contributing to ...
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