DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has hired a nine-partner team from Coudert Brothers’ Brussels office, building on the recent haul it took from the disintegrating US firm’s Frankfurt branch.

The team, which is headed up by Pierre Van Ommeslaghe, the senior partner of Coudert’s Brussels office and professor at University of Brussels Law School, is due to join the 11-partner Brussels office on 1 October.