Latham & Watkins has strengthened its City energy practice with the hire of partner Simon Tysoe from Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF). Tysoe will join the US firm as a corporate partner in London.

Tysoe, who joined legacy Herbert Smith as a trainee in 2000 and became partner in 2010, specialises in complex, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and project development work in the oil and gas sector.