Moscow-based disputes boutique Rybalkin Gortsunyan & Partners has hired a seven-lawyer team to strengthen its position in the European arbitration market, the firm announced in a statement.

The team hire comes as part of a firm-wide restructure that is centred around new joiner and litigator Dmitry Dyakin, the former co-head of litigation and arbitration at Russian firm Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, according to the firm’s website.