Pierson Ferdinand has lured a veteran mergers & acquisitions specialist from Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton in tech-heavy Silicon Valley in California where he will join his wife who was among the fast-growing distributed firm's founding partners. 

John Booher joined Pierson Ferdinand Monday as the firm's second corporate partner in Palo Alto, California, after six years as a M&A lawyer with Am Law 100 firm Sheppard Mullin.