Pillsbury is set to open an office in Boston with a team of five senior lawyers, including a litigator hired from Latham & Watkins.
Robert Gilbert has joined after seven years at Latham. He represents policyholders in complex insurance recovery matters and has acted for Boston-area clients including Harvard University, UniFirst Corporation and Northland Investment Corporation.
Gilbert will launch the office alongside Michael Zeliger, global head of Pillsbury’s IP group, Andrew Troop, leader of the firm’s insolvency and restructuring practice group, tax transactions partner Don Lonczak and senior counsel David Simons, who focuses on patent infringement litigation and post-grant proceedings. They will be supported by a team of associates, Pillsbury said.
“One of the largest legal and business markets in the US, Boston is home to a dynamic start-up ecosystem, world-class research institutions and a unique concentration of financial services companies and private capital investors,” said David Dekker, chair and CEO of Pillsbury.
“Pillsbury has long represented clients headquartered in the Boston area and those connected to the Boston-Cambridge innovation ecosystem. Opening a Boston office is a natural next step given our capabilities and relationships in the tech, life sciences, healthcare and financial industries in Boston and around the world.”
The office is Pillsbury’s 17th in the US and 25th overall.
The move sees Pillsbury join a string of Big Law firms that have opened in Boston over the past few years to capitalise on its booming technology and life sciences sectors, and as its financial services market expands.
Reed Smith opened there in March with a clutch of finance and corporate partners hired from six Big Law rivals, including K&L Gates and White & Case, while firms including Freshfields, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Blank Rome, Covington & Burling, Arnold & Porter, Paul Hastings and Akin have all opened offices in the city over the past few years.
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