Latham & Watkins has launched in Duesseldorf with a four-partner team hire from Shearman & Sterling, two weeks after Shearman announced it was closing two Germany bases in Duesseldorf and Munich.

Duesseldorf corporate partner trio Harald Selzner, Rainer Wilke and Martin Neuhaus are joining Latham’s new local office, while Munich litigation partner Markus Rieder is joining the US firm in Munich.