Allen & Overy’s (A&O’s) highly-rated telecoms partner Chris Watson is to join Dechert’s London office at the end of this month.

Watson, who joined A&O’s communications media and technology corporate group as a partner in 2000 from Simmons & Simmons, specialises in telecommunications, in particular competition and EU law and anti-trust issues, and will work in Dechert’s anti-trust corporate practice in London.