Honigman has lured Tracy Larsen from Barnes & Thornburg, where the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based dealmaker led the firm’s 200-plus lawyer corporate group and was a member of the management committee.

The coup for Michigan-based Honigman came at the expense of a larger, unnamed national firm that Larsen said he was considering joining when he decided to leave Barnes & Thornburg, a firm he joined as a partner in 2003. He declined to comment on his departure from Barnes & Thornburg other than to say he had the “utmost respect” for his former colleagues.