CMS Cameron McKenna has launched an international capital markets (ICM) group with the hire of Simmons & Simmons US securities partner Daniel Winterfeldt.

As previously reported by Legal Week, Winterfeldt left Simmons in early December 2010. He will join Camerons next month (1 February) to head up the new team, which will span 13 offices in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and include around 40 partners.

Winterfeldt (pictured) began his career in the US but has practised in the London market since 2000. He started out at in the City offices of US firms Weil Gotshal & Manges and Jones Day, before joining Simmons as a partner in 2007.