Clifford Chance (CC) has hired a team of three associates from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Amsterdam office in a bid to bolster its local finance offering.

Sander Klaassen and Robert Masman will join CC in August, while Wouter van der Gaag joined this month. All three specialise in structured finance and securitisation. Klaassen and Masman both join as senior associates, while van der Gaag joins as a junior associate.