Now, with 100 employees, Violy ranks among the top ten advisory firms in Latin America.

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Sipping a Coca-Cola--Robinson is a Coke director--he recounts how he introduced the name partner Violy McCausland to Bristol-Myers Squibb CEO Charles Heimbold at a luncheon in 1996.

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Sipping from a Coca-Cola-emblazoned paper cup--Robinson is a Coke director--he recounts how he introduced name partner Violy McCausland to Bristol-Myers Squibb Chief Executive Charles Heimbold at a luncheon in 1996.

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Six years ago, Robinson's friend James Wolfensohn introduced him to one of his star investment bankers: Violy McCausland, then 39, had spent 14 years doing Latin American merger work for J.

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