Linklaters has lost two partners from its Brussels office, with DLA Piper and Stibbe signing up the departing duo in the Belgian capital.

Yoichi Shibasaki has joined DLA’s EU competition law group in Brussels. His practice focuses on competition and trade law, corporate M&A and commercial, in particular Japanese business and Japanese law, and among his briefs at DLA will be to set up a Japanese desk in the office.