Washington DC firm Shaw Pittman has hired a six-lawyer tax team from the local arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

PwC lawyers Michael Solomon and Elizabeth Askey join as partners along with two senior counsel and two associates. Solomon said that the introduction this year of the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which restricts the legal work accountants can do for US-listed audit clients, was behind the move.