Cozen O’Connor has opened an office in Minneapolis, Minn., with eight transactional and commercial litigation partners from Chicago-based Hinshaw & Culbertson.

Thomas Wallrich, Steven Silton, Thomas Kane, Peter Crema, Nadia Hasan, Heather Marx, Joel Nesset and Kristi Zentner are leaving the 475-lawyer Hinshaw & Culbertson to join 510-lawyer Cozen as partners.