The competition is heating up in Beantown as Goodwin Procter and Kirkland & Ellis recruited a pair of partners this week from Ropes & Gray.

Jason Serlenga, a private equity expert who made partner at Ropes & Gray on Nov. 1, 2015, is poised to join Kirkland’s new office in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. Marc Lazar, co-head of Ropes & Gray’s real estate investments and transactions group, has joined Goodwin Procter’s real estate industry group as a partner in the city.