Stibbe has recruited finance partner Ivan Peeters from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to join its Brussels office. Peeters will be Stibbe’s first dedicated finance partner, with a practice focusing on securitization work. The firm’s Brussels office has made two other lateral hires within the past year, while Freshfields on the other hand, has lost several partners recently to other firms. In Germany, Haarmann has hired two new corporate partners, pushing its numbers up to 17 lawyers. Joern Hirschmann joins from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, and former Allen & Overy (A&O) senior associate Holger Erwin has moved as well. Another independent German firm, Georg, recently acquired a five-lawyer public law team from Clifford Chance’s Frankfurt office.
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