Antitrust and IP shop Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider has hired another partner from a larger law firm’s counsel ranks. Peter Herrick, previously counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, joined Axinn this week as a partner in its antitrust group in New York.

Earlier this year, Axinn, a 76-attorney firm, hired Tiffany Rider as an antitrust partner in its Washington, D.C., office. She was previously counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. (Axinn was founded in 1997 by a trio of former Skadden lawyers in New York and Connecticut.)