Shearman & Sterling patent litigator Mark Hannemann has joined Locke Lord as a partner in New York as the Texas-founded firm Locke Lord continues to add partners in New York.

Hannemann moved to Locke Lord on Aug. 26 as a partner in the IP litigation practice group. He had practiced at Shearman since 2015. Prior to that, he was a partner and member of the executive committee at Kenyon & Kenyon, which dissolved after Texas-founded Andrews Kurth hired 55 lawyers at the IP boutique in 2016.