Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has followed up on last week’s hire of former Coudert Brothers chairman David Huebner with the recruitment of Epstein Becker & Green’s New York finance head. Paul Kaplan joins the Los Angeles firm’s Manhattan office as a partner in the antitrust group.

In addition to his work in private practice, Kaplan has been employed in the legal department of some major US companies, including AT&T, Citibank and JP Morgan Chase.