Cozen O’Connor has opened an office in Minneapolis with eight transactional and commercial litigation attorneys from Chicago-based Hinshaw & Culbertson.

Thomas Wallrich, Steven Silton, Thomas Kane, Peter Crema, Nadia Hasan, Heather Marx, Joel Nesset and Kristi Zentner are leaving the 475-lawyer Hinshaw & Culbertson to join 510-lawyer Cozen as partners. Wallrich, Silton, Kane, Marx, Crema and Hasan were partners at Hinshaw & Culbertson, while the other attorneys were associates.