Reed Smith has bolstered its Paris intellectual property (IP) practice with the hire of a three-strong team from Dentons.

IP partner Marianne Schaffner joins as Reed Smith's new European patent practice head and will also lead the IP team in Paris, the firm has annouced.

She joins from Dentons' Paris office, where she has for the past year acted as the European head of patent litigation and national co-head of the firm's IP and technology group.