Clyde & Co has bolstered its Miami office with the hire an insurance team comprising two partners and eight lawyers.

Sina Bahadoran (pictured right) and Eric Hiller (pictured left) will join Clydes' Miami base as partners from US firm Hinshaw & Culbertson.

Bahadoran, who has a focus on litigation and market conduct, has spent 14 years at Hinshaw after joining in 2003, and sat on the firm's executive committee. Hiller's focus, meanwhile, is on commercial liability. The team acts for directors and officers on commercial general liability, errors and omissions and employment practices liability.

Hinshaw is a 450-lawyer Chicago-based US firm with more than 20 domestic offices, as well as a small base in London.

Commenting on the hires, Clydes senior partner Simon Konsta said: "With these hires we are delivering on our global growth strategy of hiring the very best teams in the locations in which our clients need us. This team is made up of leading insurance practitioners who will provide us with extra bench strength in our Miami office and further enhance our US practice."

Clydes Miami managing partner Barry Davis added: "The team's reputation, combined with Clyde & Co's national insurance practice and unrivalled global reach, provide significant potential for growth."

Clydes has been on a US expansion drive in recent months, culminating in the hire of 15 insurance and litigation partners from now defunct US firm Sedgwick in December. The new partners were primarily based across the US West Coast, and included the chair of Sedgwick's insurance division, Ralph Guirgis, and Sedgwick's Los Angeles managing partner James Holmes.

The hires increased Clydes' US partnership by about one third – taking total partner count to more than 60, across 10 US offices.