Latham & Watkins has lured another partner away from Clifford Chance to its London office, this time picking up a partner from the Magic Circle firm's structured finance practice.

Steve Curtis is set to leave CC to join Latham after nearly 20 years as a partner at the firm. He joined CC as an articled clerk in 1991.

His practice focuses on structured finance transactions, with particular expertise in the regulated utility, infrastructure and real estate sectors, and in complex corporate securitisations.

Latham's global chair of structured finance and securitisation, Sanjev Warna-kula-suriya, said in a statement: "With Steve's arrival we are uniquely placed to advise all participants in the infrastructure and real estate finance market – funds, private equity sponsors, investment banks, and ratings and debt advisers – on their complete structuring and execution requirements, from M&A processes to permanent debt refinancing in the bank, institutional debt, and capital markets."

Last year, Latham hired CC infrastructure head Brendan Moylan in its London office, just a day before it was revealed that the firm was also hiring Allen & Overy infrastructure partner Conrad Andersen.

In 2013 and 2014, CC private equity partners David Walker, Kem Ihenacho and Tom Evans all made the move to Latham.

CC declined to comment.