Simmons & Simmons and Goodwin Procter have made further hires from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM).

Simmons has hired former KWM corporate partner David Parkes for its London office, while Goodwin has recruited former Luxembourg office managing partner and private equity partner Alexandrine Armstrong-Cerfontaine as a consultant.

Parkes, who left KWM last year, first joined the legacy SJ Berwin London office as a partner in 1993.

In 2012, he led the team advising Icelandic bank Landsbanki on the £60m sale of iconic toy store Hamleys to French retailer Groupe Ludendo.

Simmons London corporate head Giles Dennison said: "David's sector experience is aligned to us as a firm, with specific expertise encompassing asset management and financial institutions, as well as engineering, TMT and life sciences."

Parkes will join Simmons on 1 March.

He will be reunited with former KWM private equity funds partner Cindy Valentine and banking and finance partner Jen Yee Chan, who joined Simmons at the start of this year.

In November, Simmons also recruited a three-lawyer intellectual property team from KWM in Munich, led by IP partner Michael Knopse.

Meanwhile, Goodwin has also continued its prolific hiring spree from KWM with the hire of Armstrong-Cerfontaine as a consultant.

The US firm said: "We have engaged Alexandrine Armstrong-Cerfontaine to assist us in relation to certain aspects of Luxembourg law advice."

The US firm has made a significant number of hires from KWM's now collapsed European business during the past year.

In April 2016 the firm opened in Paris with a six-partner hire from King & Wood Mallesons' private equity department that reunited the group with Richard Lever, a private equity partner in Goodwin's London office who joined from KWM in 2015.

Goodwin added five more London partners from KWM in November, including UK investment funds head Michael Halford. Last month, it picked up 26 lawyers in London from KWM.