Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is set to launch a City investigations and criminal litigation practice with the hire of Kingsley Napley heavyweight Stephen Pollard.

Pollard is to join the top 20 U.S. law firm’s London arm in the new year to found and head the practice along with a team of two associates. The move is the latest in a string of similar appointments by corporate law firms moving to build white-collar crime practices in Europe.