Munger, Tolles & Olson's top entertainment and media corporate partner Kevin Masuda is heading over to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles.

Masuda, whose hire was announced Tuesday, was not immediately available to discuss his decision to leave Munger Tolles. He joined the Los Angeles-based Am Law 200 firm in 1996 from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and made partner five years later.

In an emailed statement, Munger Tolles co-managing partner Sandra Seville-Jones praised Masuda's decades of service to the firm. “[Masuda] has been a great colleague and friend and we will always wish him the best,” she wrote.