Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has made another addition to its Paris office, with the hire of Linklaters partner Marc Perrone.

Perrone joins from the Magic Circle rival less than a week after Freshfields boosted its Paris office with arbitration and litigation partner Christophe Seraglini.

At Linklaters, Perrone was a partner and head of the firm's French financial regulation practice.

He had been at the firm for the majority of his legal career, having joined the firm in 2003 after training at U.S. firm Shearman & Sterling. He was made a partner at Linklaters in 2012.

Perrone advises financial institutions, investment funds and market infrastructure businesses on legal and regulatory aspects of banking and investment management services, and on the management of relations with regulators.

Freshfields' hires follow a handful of departures in the Magic Circle firm's Paris office to U.S. firm Jones Day, which hired Freshfields' entire Paris real estate team in early 2017 and returned in 2018 to pick up its Paris office head and disputes partner Elie Kleiman.

The Magic Circle firm did, however, hire a five-partner private equity team in Paris from Ashurst in 2017, including Guy Benda, now head of Freshfields' Paris corporate practice.

Other firms to have recruited in Paris in recent months include King & Spalding, which picked up its fifth partner in the French capital since mid-2018 with the hire of Baker McKenzie banking and finance partner Anne Vrignaud in July. Simmons & Simmons, meanwhile, hired Gowling WLG partner Jérôme Patenotte as the new head of its Paris private equity team.