Finn Zeidler, a dispute resolution and white-collar defense expert at Latham & Watkins in Frankfurt, has left the firm to join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s new office in the German financial services center.

Gibson Dunn opened in Frankfurt last year after hiring Latham’s local managing partner Dirk Oberbracht and corporate partner Wilhelm Reinhardt. Zeidler, who will now reunite with is two former colleagues, joined Latham’s litigation and trial group in 2006. Gibson Dunn has another German office in Munich, as well as European outposts in Brussels, London and Paris.