Global law firm HFW has recruited Nick Fisher as a senior partner from his own boutique shipping law firm Fishers Solicitors.

Fisher has more than 25 years' experience in commercial shipping litigation, international trade and insurance.

He will join HFW's London office on 1 May.

Fisher founded the sole-practitioner company in 1993 after time at Richards Butler, now Reed Smith, and also founded specialist shipping law firm More Fisher Brown.