PDGB of Paris has hired an M&A partner from local rival Sokolow Dunaud Mercadier & Carreras to build up a capital investment practice in the firm’s M&A department.

Francoise Monod started this month as the 17th partner in the firm’s Paris base to work alongside partners Raymond Pouget, Christophe Cancel and Philippe Peyramaure in PDGB’s M&A team.