Pinsent Masons has seen another partner exit, with CMS hiring energy and renewables partner Chris McGarvey in Glasgow.

McGarvey will join CMS on May 1, and is the latest in a recent slew of lawyer exits from the firm. He is the sixth Pinsents partner to leave in two months.

Pinsent Masons head of financial products and payments Tony Anderson led a three-lawyer defection to Eversheds Sutherland earlier this month, while in March three partners left to join Osborne Clarke, CMS and Addleshaw Goddard. Pinsents real estate partner Joel Kordan joined Pennington Manches in Birmingham to launch a commercial property offering last week.

McGarvey has been at Pinsents since 2012 and is based in the firm's Edinburgh office, according to his LinkedIn profile.

He specialises in deals involving electricity generation and transmission, wastewater and waste-to-energy projects, and regulatory compliance work for electricity, gas and water utilities across the UK, western Europe and sub-Saharan African jurisdictions.

CMS Scotland managing director Allan Wernham said in a press statement: "Chris's appointment follows on swiftly from that of Laura McIntosh, who recently joined CMS as a partner in our corporate team, from Dickson Minto."

McGarvey added: "CMS enjoys an excellent reputation in the energy and power sector, benefitting from a European network which is of significant scale and long-established."

Other partner exits from Pinsents last year included white-collar partner Anne-Marie Ottaway, who joined U.S. firm Greenberg Traurig in London; Paris-based employment partner Jean-Francois Rage, who joined Squire Patton Boggs; information law head Marc Dautlich, who went to Bristows; and France managing partner Christoph Maurer, who quit to launch his own firm.

Earlier this month, Pinsents hired corporate financial services partner Naoise Harnett from Irish firm William Fry. He will join its Dublin office this summer.