Real estate counsel George Fatheree III has left Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to join Munger, Tolles & Olson's Los Angeles office.

Fatheree officially started working Monday at Munger Tolles as a partner in its real estate group. He was previously counsel at Skadden, which he joined in 2008 after a clerkship with Judge Ferdinand Fernandez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

“Skadden was an amazing place to get world-class training as a real estate attorney,” said Fatheree, who was promoted to counsel at Skadden in 2015. “I am excited about the move to Munger because it is really a chance to join Misty Sanford and Jeff Heintz, who lead the real estate team here, and to take the training I have developed at Skadden and work with Misty and Jeff to launch their real estate group to the next level.”