Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and Greenberg Traurig picked up a pair of former in-house legal chiefs from The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. this week on two different continents.

Ben Adler, a former managing director and general counsel for Goldman Sachs’ merchant banking division in New York, joined Greenberg Traurig’s corporate group this week as of counsel in New York and Tel Aviv. Cadwalader, meanwhile, picked up Peter Morreale, a former managing director and associate general counsel in Goldman Sachs’ mortgages-legal group, as a capital markets partner in Washington, D.C.