SAN FRANCISCO — Bankruptcy lawyer Frank Pepler has joined DLA Piper, the firm said Friday.

Pepler joins from Pepler Mastromonaco, a boutique he co-founded in 2005. He started his career at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and went on to work at Steefel, Levitt & Weiss and Stein & Lubin before launching his own firm.