Polsinelli has hired a pair of Holland & Knight partners this week who have a nationally known employee stock ownership plan practice, accelerating the firm’s growth in the practice.

Bringing on Chicago-based Gregory Brown and Christopher Buch as shareholders will allow Polsinelli to integrate their “significant” ESOP practice with the firm’s national practice, said Robert Grossman, who leads the firm’s ESOP group. The laterals’ clients range from manufacturing and technology firms to companies that pave roads, Brown said.