Goodwin Procter has won a mandate for private equity firm Towerbrook Capital Partners in the first case of it taking client work from U.S. rival Sidley Austin after its hire of a five-lawyer team from Sidley in London last year.

Goodwin hired Erik Dahl and Christian Iwasko, who served respectively as Sidley’s global private equity co-leader and co-head of European corporate and private equity, as well as three other senior lawyers in September 2020 to build out its London offering.