Amid reports of a potential tie-up with Allen & Overy, O’Melveny & Myers has recruited Nicole Argentieri as a partner for its white-collar defense and corporate investigations practice in New York.

Argentieri makes the move back to private practice after a decade in public service. A former associate in Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom’s white-collar criminal defense group, Argentieri left the firm in 2007 to join the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. In 2016, the Brooklyn-based Argentieri was elevated to chief of the public integrity section, and she also served as acting head of the office’s organized crime and gangs section.