Former U.S. federal prosecutor Roger Burlingame is joining Dechert in London, leaving behind the fast-growing boutique that first lured him across the Atlantic. 

Burlingame moved from New York more than five years ago to join Kobre & Kim, which has built a booming cross-border disputes practice in part by placing veterans of the U.S. Justice Department in jurisdictions overseas. (The firm recently announced a series of hires in London, Asia and Washington.)