Adit Khorana has left his role as leader of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr's West Coast technology transactions practice to join Cooley's office in Palo Alto, California, where he will lead his new firm's equivalent practice group in Silicon Valley.

At Cooley, Khorana will continue advising clients in the computer hardware and software, semiconductor and electronic, Internet and mobile media sectors on intellectual property and transactional matters. After seven years at Wilmer, Khorana said that Cooley presented a chance to shape an expansion effort that he couldn't turn down.

“Cooley has grown so rapidly over the last decade,” he said. “Their growth in both the size and sophistication of their existing clients, as well as the total number of clients, has outstripped their ability to provide services to every client at every level. There's just a great opportunity here that maybe doesn't exist everywhere right now.”