Greg Chin, a former partner at Latham & Watkins and Jones Day, has left San Francisco's Flatiron Law Group for Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo.

Chin, who is based in San Francisco, led the Silicon Valley practice at Flatiron, a boutique formed by former Jones Day lawyers. Chin's practice focuses on clean technology, life sciences and digital health, areas in which he said Mintz Levin has a substantial presence nationally and is looking to grow on the West Coast.

A day after he started as a partner in Mintz Levin's corporate and securities group, Chin said he was already meeting with a startup that has a relationship with an East Coast partner at the Boston-based Am Law 100 firm, which had another successful financial year in 2016. As for the startup, which Chin declined to name, it is now looking for investments from Silicon Valley venture capital firms.