66 Finance Monthly. Special Feature path and not like a sequence of improvised steps. Capital markets provide a great fit for a lawyer with a business background, and what I learned from accounting and finance courses in college informs my work and my interactions with bankers, auditors and the treasury teams at our corporate clients every day. Could you describe the work that you handle today? We work as an extension of the New York capital markets group focused on transactions of Brazilian companies. The Brazilian market is active enough to have justified a physical presence by Milbank since 2010 and this physical and even cultural proximity to our clients in Brazil is critical to the service we provide. I am the only American in the capital markets team in São Paulo but I always say I have a Brazilian soul, and while personal reasons brought me to Brazil in the first place, Milbank was the reason I stayed. What sets your team at Milbank apart in your sector? We have the resources, precedents and pool of knowledge of a global firm with numerous practice areas “I do not think our team dynamics, our client roster and our reputation in the market are easily matched.
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