Peter Fusco, a partner at Lowenstein Sandler and co-chair of the firm's Brooklyn Entrepreneurship Center, is poised to join Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe as a leader of its technology companies practice in New York.

Orrick is the latest Am Law 100 firm looking to ramp up its technology industry expertise in the city, which in recent years has grown as a hub for startup companies and the lawyers looking to advise them.

Fusco advises emerging companies and venture capital firms on transactions and funding matters. He's also worked with New York University's tech incubators. In 2014, he helped Lowenstein launch its entrepreneurship center, a satellite hub of the firm's New York office in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood, where startups have proliferated in former warehouses.