Latham & Watkins has hired a corporate partner in Milan, taking Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partner corporate finance specialist Antonio Coletti.

He joins the five-partner group which Latham recruited from Gianni’s Italian rival Bonelli Erede Pappalardo in November last year, a move which handed the US firm its first Italian law capability and an office in Rome, where the firm stationed one of the partners, Tommaso Amirante.