DLA Piper's Sydney office has recruited a corporate partner duo, including Bryan Pointon, who joins as head of corporate for Asia-Pacific, from Gilbert + Tobin.

Pointon, a top-ranked private equity lawyer who spent 15 years at King & Wood Mallesons and previously practiced at Latham & Watkins in New York, makes the move alongside David Ryan from Ashurst.

Ryan, who focuses his practice on public company M&A, equity capital markets transactions and corporate governance, counts a number of clients in the engineering, infrastructure, technology and health industries.