Four corporate partners have left Morrison & Foerster's soon-to-be shuttered Northern Virginia office to join King & Spalding's Washington, D.C., office.

Larry Yanowitch, Charles Katz, Tom Knox and Jeremy Schropp have all been together at Morrison & Foerster since leaving Shaw Pittman in 2005 in advance of that firm's acquisition by Pillsbury Winthrop.

For King & Spalding, the new hires are an opportunity for the firm to bolster its corporate practice and broaden its technology offerings.