Addleshaw Goddard has hired projects partner Andrew Petry from magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Petry, who specialises in project finance, restructurings, infrastructure and energy transactions and banking and Islamic finance, will join Addleshaws’ London arm in February. From 2001 to 2006, he was based in Freshfields’ Amsterdam office, where he helped establish a finance practice in the region.