New York leader Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has boosted its European corporate practice with the hire of Clifford Chance’s (CC) Brussels managing partner Laurent Legein, Legal Week can reveal.

The highly-rated Legein, who focuses on M&A, private equity and equity capital markets transactions, joined the magic circle giant in 1994 and became a partner in 2001. He will start at Cleary on 14 November.