MarketWire is reporting that King & Spalding has announced plans to open an office in Geneva Switzerland.  This will be the firm’s seventh office opened abroad and represents a move to expand its global trade practice.  To head the Geneva practice, K&S has brought in Daniel Crosby, a former partner of the Geneva based firm Budin & Partners.  He is an international trade specialist with a range of experience in World Trade Org matters, international trade and investment policy and trade remedy proceedings.

King & Spalding, which is celebrating 125 years of service, is an international firm with more than 800 lawyers in Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dubai, Frankfurt, Houston, London, New York, Paris, Riyadh (affiliated office), San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C.