Ropes & Gray has recruited a Jones Day partner for its London private equity practice, in the second partner addition to the new team this month.

The US firm has sealed the hire of Peter Baldwin, who has been at Jones Day since 2008 after joining from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft.

Before his spell at Cadwalader he spent 11 years at Slaughter and May, acting on a range of public and private corporate deals and equity capital markets transactions.

Ropes launched its City private equity practice earlier this month with the hire of DLA Piper corporate partner Kiran Sharma.

With his move to Ropes, Baldwin will be reunited with two other ex-Cadwalader partners hired by the US firm in London. In November last year the firm signed up former Cads restructuring partner James Douglas, who joined from New Zealand's Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, as well as former Cadwalader restructuring contemporary Tony Horspool, who joined in January 2010 from Weil Gotshal & Manges.

Commenting on the hire, London co-managing partner Mike Goetz (pictured) commented: "Baldwin has a very broad practice, acting for buyout houses, corporates and large investment banks. The breadth of the practice is appealing to us and there are many existing Ropes clients that are expanding into the London market which Peter will be ideally positioned to act for."

Baldwin will be the ninth partner in Ropes & Gray's City office, which launched in January 2010 with the double hire of co-managing partners Goetz and Maurice Allen from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.