DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary’s, Austrian and central and eastern European (CEE) arm DLA Weiss-Tessbach has hired Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Paris partner Thomas Hechl to head up its projects and finance practice in CEE.

International projects and finance lawyer Hechl, who joined DLA Weiss-Tessbach on 1 May, previously headed Freshfields’ energy and infrastructure team in Paris.