Norton Rose Fulbright on Tuesday announced that it has hired Jeffrey Lewis, a patent litigator and past president of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, as a partner in the global law firm's New York office.

Lewis, whose practice includes a focus on pharmaceutical patent litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act, comes to Norton Rose after a little more than two years at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, which he joined in March 2015. Prior to that, he had spent more than two decades at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, where he headed the firm's patent group before departing.

In a statement Tuesday, Norton Rose touted the addition of Lewis as a boon for both the firm's expanding New York outpost and its IP practice.