Addleshaw Goddard raids BCLP, K&L Gates in Paris to open 22-strong office 29 January 2021 Addleshaw Goddard raids BCLP, K&L Gates in Paris to open 22-strong office Team of 18 BCLP lawyers led by former office head forms bedrock of UK firm's second mainland European arm By mapman; Shutterstock Addleshaw Goddard is stepping up its post-Brexit European presence with the opening of a Paris office, hiring 18 lawyers from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) and four from K&L Gates. The French move doubles the firm’s continental European offering, adding to its existing practice in Hamburg, which opened in June 2019, also following a BCLP raid.