McDermott Will & Emery, fresh off a strong 2019 that saw revenues increase by double digits and its partnership expand, has added three former Kirkland & Ellis litigation partners to its health care litigation practice, the firm said Tuesday.

Josh Simon, Warren Haskel and Dmitriy Tishyevich will all be operating out of McDermott's New York office, which according to the Chicago-based firm now has over 40 commercial litigators.

"In the complex landscape in which health plans operate today, clients require talented lawyers with a track record of success," David Rosenbloom, global head of McDermott's litigation practice group, said in a statement. "Josh, Warren and Dmitriy are precisely that type of kind of lawyer."

Simon, a Kirkland partner since 2007, is a complex litigation attorney representing clients in arbitrations and regulatory proceedings, handling ERISA, RICO and regulatory disputes for major health care clients. He has experience working on claims payments, class action lawsuits and competitive issues in the health care field, according to his McDermott biography.

Haskel, who had been at Kirkland for more than 11 years, focuses on complex litigation and arbitration in the health care sector. He has also handled matters involving consumer products, business software technology, private equity and financial services. Haskel had spent his entire legal career at Kirkland prior to the move.

Tisheyvich, who had been at Kirkland for almost 10 years, also works with health care industry clients on commercial litigation matters. He has previously represented clients such as Teva Pharmaceutical, Facebook, Abbott Labs and AbbVie.

McDermott, continuing a strategy of growth via lateral hiring, on-boarded an eight-partner group from Drinker Biddle & Reath back in September 2019 and five labor and employment attorneys from Dentons and one from Baker McKenzie in October of the same year.

"Usually when you add [partners], you reduce your profits. But we integrated them so quickly and so well. We had socially cohesive teams that super-performed," Ira Coleman, McDermott's chair, said in an interview with The American Lawyer in February.

In a statement on the latest moves, Kirkland said "We want to thank this litigation team for their work at Kirkland and we wish them well at their next firm."

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