Squire Sanders & Dempsey is losing Milan-based partner Andrea Carreri to a corporate boutique set up earlier this year by breakaway senior Italian Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partners Giovanni Lega and Paolo Colucci.

Carreri, who specialises in M&A, is expected to start at the as yet unnamed firm in July, quitting Squire Sanders’ four-partner Milan branch, which is headed by Gabriele Bernascone.