Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has hired two partners from Allen & Overy to bolster its London corporate practice.

The U.S. firm has picked up A&O partners George Knighton and Simon Toms, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, with the pair leaving the Magic Circle firm just weeks after its merger talks with U.S. firm O’Melveny & Myers broke down.