Morrison & Foerster partner Ze'ev Eiger and former Kirkland & Ellis and Reed Smith attorney Patrick Rowe have joined the transactions practice group at McDermott Will & Emery the firm said Tuesday.

“Ze'-ev and Patrick have strong experience with market-shaping deals that will create significant synergies with our corporate work in New York,” said Harris Siskind, global head of McDermott's transactions practice group, in a statement.

Eiger's practice focuses on securities and other corporate transactions for both foreign and domestic companies, representing issuers and other institutions and investors in IPOs, private placements and other financing transactions.

“McDermott has a strong capital markets bench with lawyers focused in key areas such as structured finance, corporate restructurings and private equity,” Eiger said in a statement. “I'm looking forward to joining forces with seasoned colleagues to support issuers, financial institutions and investors seeking to push forward their business objectives.”

Rowe works with private and public companies on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, according to McDermott.

“I'm excited to join the dynamic and growing transactions team and contribute to its top-tier, global M&A and private equity work,” Rowe said in a statement released by the firm.

Although the firm lost three partners within a week of each other back in May, it has also been steadily adding lawyers since then.

Other additions within the last three months include U.S. Supreme Court advocates Paul Hughes and Michael Kimberly, who joined from Mayer Brown, along with London disputes resolution partner Andrew Savage, and Ben Strauss in Wilmington, Delaware. This month the firm also bought health care research and advisory firm Farragut Square Group, which will be part of McDermott's lobbying and advocacy group in D.C.

According to ALM data, the firm reached a 10-year low of 968 attorneys in 2010 before recovering to their current level of over 1,000. Eiger and Rowe will be joining McDermott's New York office, the firm's third-largest in the U.S. after Chicago and D.C.

Eiger had spent the last 15 years at Morrison & Foerster, joining the firm in 2004 as an associate before making partner in 2013. He earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Rowe began his legal career at Reed Smith before moving over to Kirkland and now to McDermott. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University School of Law.

“They bring new perspectives to our growing team,” said Siskind in a statement. “Their depth of experience will add real value for our clients involved in complex transactions.”

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