Baker & McKenzie is set to lose a team of antitrust partners in Frankfurt, including the firm’s German and European competition head, as the group splits off to launch a new competition boutique this September under the name Commeo. The three associates who make up the remainder of Baker’s Frankfurt antitrust practice are expected to join the partners at Commeo, although a final decision has not been made.

Bingham McCutchen expanded its energy and project finance practice in New York on Monday by hiring the co-chair of Fulbright & Jaworski’s global infrastructure group.

Allen & Overy could rack up further costs from this year’s $76 million global restructuring, after it emerged that the firm is involved in at least one lawsuit in Germany. The Magic Circle firm confirmed that at least one former associate in Germany still has a case pending against it, an unfair dismissal dispute relating to redundancies made in the Frankfurt office as part of A&O’s worldwide restructuring.