Diogo Pereira, a former associate at Paul Hastings and a pair of Magic Circle firms, is formally opening a new firm in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, with a sibling firm already active in São Paulo, Brazil.

Pereira’s new firm, De Almeida Pereira, will handle cross-border investigations, international disputes and international project finance, public international law and white-collar criminal matters alongside its Brazilian counterpart, De Paula Dias, led by Thiago de Paula Ribeiro.