King & Spalding has hired Geneviève Michaux to join the firm's Brussels office as a partner focusing on life sciences.

Michaux joins from Mayer Brown's Brussels office, where she worked since July 2016. Before that, she was at Hunton & Williams in the city for three years.

Michaux is King & Spalding's latest hire in its Brussels office, which was opened this summer. In June, the firm hired Hervé Jouanjean, a former European Commission official, and Marie-Sophie Dibling for its trade practice.

Wick Sollers, head of King & Spalding's government matters practice, said in a statement: "The opening of the Brussels office, and addition of widely recognised experts like Genevieve, continues the expansion of our EU platform for the firm's life sciences practice, as well as for our international trade practice."

Robert Hays, chairman of King & Spalding, added that because Brussels is a global hub for international trade and regulatory practices, the firm's presence there "will be an important part of a strategic axis between the U.S. and several of our international offices, in particular London, Geneva, Paris and Frankfurt".