Cooley is expanding its securities litigation practice with the addition of partner Aric Wu, formerly of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
Wu, who started with the firm on Monday, will focus on securities litigation, corporate control contests, and other complex litigation in Cooley’s New York office.
“We have a robust securities litigation practice and we’ve been growing that on the East Coast,” Luke Cadigan, Cooley’s head of business litigation for the East Coast, said in an interview. “We have quite a few clients in the high tech and life sciences, and we’re expecting to grow that.”
The hire comes after the ...