Clifford Chance (CC) has sealed the hire of two Dewey & LeBoeuf M&A partners for the firm's New York office, reports The Am Law Daily.

Ivan Presant and Joseph Cosentino will join CC's New York base in the magic circle firm's latest move to bolster the office, after the addition of a trio of former US federal prosecutors as partners in October.

Cosentino has spent his entire legal career at Dewey, beginning as an associate at legacy firm Dewey Ballantine, which merged with New York's LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae in August 2007. He was promoted to partner in January 2009.