The business consultancy has recruited a former trader with 23 years’ experience of financial markets and regulation.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo has added a commercial and intellectual property disputes member to its litigation practice from Boies Schiller Flexner in New York.

A commercial and insolvency disputes practitioner with broad litigation and arbitration experience has moved from contentious boutique Kaplan Rice to Barnes & Thornburg, bringing 15 years’ experience to its litigation group.

A former assistant United States attorney with more than a decade of criminal investigatory and public prosecution experience, including the high-profile trial of drug lord ‘El Chapo’ has arrived at Mayer Brown’s New York office.

A contentious practitioner with notable in-house experience has arrived as a partner in the firm’s New York office.

Three of Debevoise & Plimpton’s seven partner promotions in New York are on the disputes side.

Two partners and an associate have joined Withers from Pierce Bainbridge in New York and Los Angeles, while Reed Smith has recruited a Miami-based Brazilian disputes expert.

Five contentious lawyers are among the 16 practitioners to be promoted at the New York-headquartered multinational firm.

Jenner & Block has recruited a former ambassador to its crisis management and litigation practice, as Boies Schiller Flexner nurses yet another partner loss.

Of 11 lawyers who have joined FisherBroyles in the United States, seven of them have contentious practices. All the new arrivals have joined at the partner level, in line with the firm’s partner-only policy.

Jenner & Block has announced that the former director of the Enron task force and head of the DoJ’s fraud section will return to the firm after nine-years away.

Clifford Chance has announced 26 firm-wide promotions to partner. Of the five elevations on the contentious side, four are in Europe.