Dechert has hired this week former federal prosecutor Andrew Boutros from Seyfarth Shaw to serve as regional chair of the firm’s U.S. white-collar practice.

Boutros, who will be based in Chicago and Washington, D.C., was the national co-chair of Seyfarth’s white-collar, internal investigations and false claims team. He had been at the firm since 2015, after leaving the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago.