LG is to lose a trio of finance and restructuring partners to Pinsent Masons, taking the number of London partners to hand in their notice since September to eight.

Head of finance and restructuring Nicholas Pike, head of restructuring and insolvency Tom Withyman and restructuring and insolvency partner Steven Cottee are all set to join Pinsents' London banking and restructuring practice in the coming months.

The departures come after it emerged last week that banking and finance partner Charles Malpass is set to join Dechert's City arm in January next year.

Meanwhile, a three-partner financial litigation team quit in September for DLA Piper, while intellectual property and media head Georgie Collins left for Brown Rudnick last month.

Pike, who has been a partner at LG since 1999 when he joined from DLA Piper, specialises in restructuring, turnaround, insolvency, financial dispute resolution and asset forfeiture work, while Cottee has been a partner at LG since 2007, joining the firm from legacy Richards Butler.

Withyman has spent the majority of his career at LG, starting as a newly-qualified lawyer in 1992. He spent two years as a senior crown counsel in the British West Indies, before returning to LG in 1997 and making partner in 2000.

LG's managing partner Hugh Maule said: "Insolvency remains an important part of our successful finance practice and we continue to look at developing the team. We continue to have a very healthy flow of work and excellent clients. We are investing in the whole finance team and have just recruited partner Iain Shurwood from Squire Sanders Hammonds as well as three new associates earlier in the year."

For Pinsents the hires come after the firm recruited a quartet of sports lawyers from Clarke Willmott in September led by partner Trevor Watkins, who has joined the firm to head up its sports group.