Linklaters has hired a partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, as it returns to its rival for the second time in Europe in a month, this time boosting its Frankfurt base.

The hire of employment partner René Döring comes little more than a week after the elite U.K. firm added Freshfields private equity partner Florent Mazeron as its new co-head of global financial sponsors, working out of the firm’s Paris base.