Shearman & Sterling antitrust partners Stephen Mavroghenis and Miguel Rato, courted last year by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, have joined the firm’s Brussels office. Both lawyers re-unite with former colleague Trevor Soames, who Quinn Emanuel hired in December.

Mavroghenis served as global head of Shearman & Sterling’s competition group and managing partner of its Brussels office, where he spent years working alongside Rato and Soames. All three lawyers joined Shearman & Sterling in 2011 from Howrey, just prior to that firm’s collapse.