Hogan Lovells’ Brussels managing partner Catriona Hatton has left the firm to launch a European competition practice for US firm Baker Botts.

The hire of Hatton, who will join her new firm on 5 September, comes after Baker Botts took on 32 antitrust lawyers from Howrey in March last year, including the now-defunct firm’s former vice-chair Sean Boland. The nine-partner team joined Baker Botts’ Washington DC base.