US tech joint venture firm Brobeck Hale and Dorr (BHD) has lost its head of IT and IP to the London office of leading Chicago firm Kirkland & Ellis.

Pierre-Andre Dubois helped to set up BHD’s IT and IP team in London after joining the firm as a partner from Norton Rose in 1999. He was the only dedicated IP and IT partner in BHD’s eight-partner London office.