Pinsent Masons has strengthened its City financial services practice with the hire of banking litigation partner Michael Isaacs from Addleshaw Goddard.

Isaacs, who is currently based in Addleshaws' Manchester office, is set to move to Pinsents' London base, bringing the total number of partners at the firm's City headquarters to around 150. His start date is yet to be confirmed.

He leaves Addleshaws after seven years with the firm, after joining from legacy Hammonds – where he was also a partner – in 2001.

Isaacs specialises in resolving disputes in retail, commercial and wealth banking, and in 2009 completed an extended partner secondment to the commercial litigation team at Barclays Bank.

He was also part of the successful team that acted for defrauded lender Cheshire Building Society, a trading division of Nationwide Building Society, in the 2008 case against surveyors Dunlop Haywards and law firm Cobbetts.

Isaacs' arrival at Pinsents follows the earlier January appointments of energy disputes specialist John Gilbert, who joined as partner in London from his in-house role at BP, and infrastructure disputes expert Frederic Gillion, who joined the firm's Paris office from construction law specialist firm Fenwick Elliott.

Pinsent Masons litigation and compliance head James Bullock said: "We have strong relationships with a number of financial institutions and Michael's arrival, following on the recruitment of John and Frederic, demonstrates our commitment to developing a world-class litigation practice."