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 Steptoe’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 element—whether they be insolvencies, regulatory enforcement matters or transactions issues—are coming up “more and more” and he was impressed with Steptoe’s work in that area, particularly its work enforcing awards against Venezuela and its national oil company.