LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae has hired Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe Paris M&A partner Francois Bloch, just 18 months after he joined the San Francisco-based firm.

Bloch, who specialises in handling TMT clients, joins the New York firm as its seventh Paris partner. He joined Orrick in September 2004 from Willkie Farr & Gallagher, where he served as head of the TMT department. He has also worked at Clifford Chance.