Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer announced Wednesday that it has hired three mergers and acquisitions attorneys from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to its New York office, just over a month after four high-profile partners made a similar move.

Andrea Basham, Elizabeth "Leza" Bieber and Zheng "Jonathan" Zhou were all hired as counsel, Freshfields said. The attorneys, who respectively had been counsel, an associate and a senior attorney at Cleary, are also joined by Chase Lax, who moved to Freshfields as an associate, the new firm said.

The moves come after the more high-profile moves by corporate lawyers Ethan Klingsberg, Pamela Marcogliese and Paul Tiger and litigator Meredith Kotler, all partners. Klingsberg, who worked on major transactions for Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks and BASF, was said by a source to have a $30 million book of business.