DLA Piper has hired partner Stefan Dittmer from Baker & McKenzie.
Dittmer, formerly the head of Baker & McKenzie's IP and dispute resolution practice in Berlin, will join counsel Annemarie Bloss at DLA's Hamburg office by November 1.
DLA's intellectual property and technology group now has seven partners in Germany, with offices in Germany, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich, and is led overall by managing partner Jan Geert Meents.