Ricardo “Rick” Martinez, co-leader of the trade and export finance practice at Haynes and Boone, has joined Hogan Lovells as a banking and finance partner in New York.

The move comes more than two years after Martinez headed to Haynes and Boone from Baker McKenzie, a firm he joined in 2011 from a predecessor of fellow global legal giant Dentons.

“I was attracted to the unique assets that Hogan Lovells has,” Martinez said of his move to the global firm, which was formed in 2010 following a trans-Atlantic tie-up between Washington, D.C.-based Hogan & Hartson and London-based Lovells. “As opposed to many firms that have a big global footprint and a strong finance practice, [Hogan Lovells also] has a very good domestic U.S. practice. Those things combined in one place just made this opportunity irresistible.”