Taylor Wessing has begun rebuilding its Berlin office with the hire of corporate partner Marc-Oliver Kurth from local rival Hoffmann Liebs Fritsch & Partner. Kurth, a partner in Hoffmann Liebs' Berlin office since 2004, will join in June as a partner in the corporate department, specialising in capital markets and M&A work. The hire follows the departure of a six-partner team in December that quit the firm for US practice Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham.