The group includes four partners who will join Nixon Peabody’s New York office — Kathleen Balderston, Ellen Friedman, David Graybeal and William O’Brien — one counsel, Garrett Smith, and one associate.

The firm also has added two energy and environmental partners each in the Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley offices, as well as a counsel in Washington. Earlier this month, Morgan Lewis & Bockius acquired an eight-partner energy practice from Thelen, which voted to dissolve in late October.