Willkie Farr & Gallagher has moved to dramatically scale up its French projects and public law practice with the hire of a nine-lawyer team from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Public law partner Thierry Laloum and project finance partner Amir Jahanguiri both joined the Paris arm of Willkie Farr on 1 May as partners, alongside counsel Vincent Brenot, who also joined as a partner.