Clifford Chance has picked up two private equity partners in Munich from Kirkland & Ellis, a few months after two partners left the Magic Circle firm’s office in the city to join Milbank.

Clifford Chance has hired Volkmar Bruckner and Mark Aschenbrenner to its team in the Bavarian capital. Bruckner has been a partner at Kirkland since 2017, when he joined the firm from Weil Gotshal & Manges, while Aschenbrenner joined Kirkland as an associate in 2015 and made partner at the firm in 2019.