For Carlos Pita Cao, a partner in AKD’s Rotterdam office, the key to guiding an M&A practice through the pandemic lies in the ability to identify trends early on.

Pita Cao has headed up AKD’s corporate M&A practice since 2016, overseeing a team of 60 lawyers. Law.com International caught up with the Rotterdam-based lawyer recently to discuss the state of the M&A market, maintaining relations with ‘best friends’ firms over Zoom and Teams, and the career advice from his father that he never forgot.