Nathaniel Kritzer, a litigator at Kirkland & Ellis who represented several blue-chip clients in his decade at the firm, has joined Steptoe & Johnson as a partner in New York. He said he was attracted to Steptoeā€™s strength in cross-border litigation.

Kritzer, who spent more than a decade at Kirkland and made partner there in 2015, started at Steptoe on Monday. He said cases with a cross-border elementā€”whether they be insolvencies, regulatory enforcement matters or transactions issuesā€”are coming up ā€œmore and moreā€ and he was impressed with Steptoeā€™s work in that area, particularly its work enforcing awards against Venezuela and its national oil company.