A month after opening a second office in Los Angeles, Sidley Austin has made another big addition for its outpost in Century City.

Sidley, which has hired from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan to bolster that new venture, announced Tuesday its hire of real estate and structured finance partner JOEL ROTHSTEIN from Paul Hastings, where he spent the past two decades at the firm, working out of its offices in Los Angeles and Beijing.