Taylor Wessing has added a second high-profile official from the French Bar Council to its French practice after hiring LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae’s former local managing partner Alain de Foucaud.

De Foucaud, who joined the firm this month, becomes the 16th partner in Taylor Wessing’s Paris office and will head up the local capital markets and venture capital practice, as well as working on Taylor Wessing’s US strategy.