Willkie Farr & Gallagher landed in Chicago with a splash Tuesday, announcing a new office there staffed by six prominent partners from Jenner & Block, including the firm’s former chairman.

Craig Martin, who was Jenner’s top leader until less than a month ago, is joining Willkie as a member of the firm’s executive committee and as its Midwest chairman. When Martin stepped down as the chairman of Jenner, a role to which he was first appointed in January 2019, he said, “It was the job of a life, but not for a lifetime.”