DLA Piper has hired a Baker McKenzie antitrust partner in a move it described as “key” to its ambition to expand the firm’s competition group in Europe’s antitrust policymaking hub.

The firm has hired Joost Haans, who joined Baker Mckenzie as counsel in 2010 and was promoted to partner in 2018, according to his LinkedIn profile. He has also worked in-house, as senior legal director at medtech giant Philips, as well as a public servant for the Dutch justice ministry.