Morrison and Foerster, which has been expanding its global investigations, compliance and white-collar defence practice, has recruited two compliance specialists as partners from WilmerHale in Berlin.

Roland Steinmeyer and Patrick Späth specialise in corporate governance and compliance issues. Steinmeyer is known as a leading adviser to German blue-chip companies and is counsel to carmaker Daimler AG’s supervisory board for the investigations by German and U.S. authorities into diesel emissions.