E. Bart Daniel, a former top federal prosecutor in South Carolina, has closed up his own solo shop in Charleston to join Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a litigation partner and co-head of its white-collar crime and government investigations group, the firm said Wednesday.

“Nelson Mullins people are the kind of people with whom I would want to be associated,” said Daniel, who will split his time between the Am Law 100 firm's offices in Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina. “It's just a good fit for me and I think hopefully, it's going to be a good fit for the firm too.”

For nearly 40 years, Daniel has been heavily involved in public service. After graduating from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1980, Daniel became an assistant state attorney general in the economic crime unit of the attorney general's office in South Carolina, where he prosecuted financial crimes, tax frauds and white-collar cases. Two years later, he became an assistant U.S. attorney, where he worked on securities, tax and customs violations.