In a move to 'significantly grow' its corporate offering, DWF has hired Squire Patton Boggs head of capital markets Matthew Doughty to lead its London corporate division. Mr Doughty specialises in mid-market M&A, equity capital markets transactions and ongoing securities law advice for both private and publicly owned companies.

The senior director of antitrust at Philips, Yvo de Vries, is to join A&O's Amsterdam office as partner in its global antitrust practice. Mr de Vries was previously the head of the EU litigation department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Chadbourne & Parke has hired Bryan Cave's head of Central Eastern Europe and CIS team Irina Tymczyszyn as partner to its international arbitration and public international law practice in London.

Stephenson Harwood has also made an international lateral hire with the addition of Erik Wallace to its private wealth team. Mr Wallace, who will be based in the firm's Hong Kong office, joins from Withers.

Two new partners have joined King & Wood Mallesons in Hong Kong. Commercial litigator and technology specialist Peter Bullock joins from Pinsent Masons, where he established the firm’s technology law group nearly two decades ago, while IPO specialist Anthony Wan joins from Llinks Law. He was previously at Clifford Chance and Morrison Foerster.