Katherine Krause, a managing director in Goldman Sachs’ legal department, is joining Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as a partner in its mergers and acquisitions practice in New York, the firm said Tuesday.

Krause is one of several M&A hires at Simpson Thacher this year. She’s also one of the latest in a string of partner hires among private-equity focused law firms in the last two months, despite the marked slowdown in M&A deals—showing that the pandemic has not erased firms’ appetite for top dealmakers.