Baker McKenzie is expanding its German M&A practice with the hiring of Linklaters partner Dirk Horcher, the latest in a global hiring spree that has seen the firm add more than 20 M&A partners in recent months across Germany, the U.S., and Asia to strengthen its capabilities.

Horcher, a specialist in public takeovers, has been a partner at Linklaters since 2017 and will join Baker McKenzie in October. The firm has also added two Singapore private equity partners in September, former Hogan Lovells M&A specialist Daniel Dehghanian in Düsseldorf in June, and a 17-strong team of M&A partners and lawyers in Los Angeles in April.