Gonçalo Capela Godinho joins Pérez-Llorca from Lefosse   

Pérez-Llorca has announced the addition of Gonçalo Capela Godinho, who joins from Brazilian firm Lefosse, as a partner of the firm, as well as the expansion of their offices in New York and London.

With more than 20 years of experience, Godinho joins Pérez-Llorca to contribute to the Firm’s international development and boost relationships with clients and institutions outside Spain, particularly in the Portuguese-speaking markets, with a special focus on Portugal and Brazil.
His functions will include supporting the Firm’s international strategy and the development of its offices, as well as advising clients on M&A transactions.

Due to his experience in the Brazilian, Portuguese, British and American markets, Godinho´s addition is in line with Pérez-Llorca’s international projections, which the Firm has been working on consistently for several years. It started in 2015 when the firm opened its London and New York offices, to continue in 2022 with an office in Brussels, and in 2023 with an office in Singapore.

With this addition, Pérez-Llorca continues to advance its goal of incorporating foreign talent into the firm. Specializing in mergers and acquisitions in various sectors, particularly energy and infrastructure, Gonçalo´s clients include multinational companies, U.S. firms, funds and investment banks, among others. Until now, he was a partner at a well-known Brazilian firm and previously worked in the London and New York offices of a major American law firm. Godinho will combine his work in Pérez-Llorca’s international project with advising clients on commercial matters in energy and infrastructure, areas in which he has excelled in recent years, participating in some of the most important transactions in these sectors in Brazil.

"Gonçalo’s international and strategic vision will help us to continue developing and growing outside our borders, within the international vocation of the Firm" said Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Managing Partner of Pérez-Llorca.

"We believe that we are at the right moment, both in terms of our size and our positioning, to continue to strengthen our international projection and we believe that Gonçalo will help us to achieve this goal together with the partners responsible for the international strategy in all our offices", said Iván Delgado, partner responsible for the international development of Pérez-Llorca.

Gonçalo Capela Godinho is expected to join the firm in Madrid during the month of July. Subsequently, he will operate from Lisbon, where he will reside. He will maintain offices in Madrid, Lisbon and São Paulo.

In addition, as part of Pérez-Llorca’s international strategy, the firm will double the space in its London and New York offices.

In the case of London, after the success of the change of its headquarters from the City of London to Mayfair, a neighborhood where most of the international funds with which the Firm works regularly are located, Pérez-Llorca will double the square meters of surface area and will occupy two floors of the building located at 17 Hill Street.
In New York, Pérez-Llorca is also doubling the surface area of its office located in the emblematic Seagram Building, designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and located on Park Avenue, where it has been operating since its opening in 2015.