Dewey Ballantine has bolstered its German capital markets team with the hire of a partner from US rival White & Case.

Matthias von Oppen is joining Dewey's Frankfurt arm on 1 March as a local partner after seven years with White & Case in Frankfurt and London. Von Oppen has experience of a range of capital markets work including initial public offerings and high-yield bonds, having advised financial institutions including Cazenove, Sal Oppenheim and DZ Bank as well as Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and HVB.

His hire takes Dewey's Frankfurt capital markets group to five partners, including two local partners, and around 10 lawyers in total. He will work alongside Frankfurt partners Philipp von Ilberg and former colleague Joe Marx, who joined Dewey as a partner from White & Case last April.