Pinsent Masons has strengthened its financial services team with the hire of top-rated SGH Martineau partner David Doogan as head of the firm’s Birmingham banking team.

Doogan, who is top ranked by Chambers and Partners for banking and finance work in Birmingham, headed up the banking team at SGH Martineau, which was formed by the merger of Birmingham firm and London’s Sprecher Grier Halberstam in 2011.