Former Dewey & LeBoeuf executive partner Stephen Horvath has joined Greenberg Traurig Maher as a shareholder in its London corporate and securities practice.

Horvath, Dewey's former European M&A practice head and member of its European Council, was made executive partner as the firm began to experience financial difficulty last year, before it was eventually wound up.

The move to bring Horvath to Greenberg has been in the pipeline for more than a year. In May 2012, as Dewey was going into administration, Greenberg acquired its highly respected Warsaw office, which had six equity partners and more than 50 lawyers, as well as corporate finance partners Frank Adams and Federico Salinas.