Quarles & Brady, the US law firm, has brought in Kirk Hoopingarner as a partner at its trust and estates practice.

Based in the firm's Chicago office, Hoopingarner joins both the trust and estates and tax exempt organizations group. He will focus on trust and estate administration, wealth planning and philanthropy for high net worth families and individuals.

Also joining Quarles & Brady is Nicholas Schmidbauer, as a partner in the intellectual property group. Schmidbauer will work on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications.

Quarles & Brady employs around 450 attorneys from its offices in the US and Shanghai, China.