Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its City energy and corporate practices with the hire of a White & Case partner.

Greg Hammond (pictured) joins the US firm tomorrow after 10 years as a partner at White & Case, working on corporate finance transactions with a focus on the oil and gas, energy, financial services and consumer products sectors.

Akin's London energy practice is almost entirely focused on emerging markets, in particular the CIS, and boasts Russia's largest oil company, Lukoil, as one of its major European clients.