Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is opening in the San Francisco Bay Area, the firm announced Wednesday, adding an antitrust practice leader from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and relocating several lawyers from New York and Washington, D.C.

Pointing to longstanding clients in California as well as a new regulatory landscape, the firm said four partners—two in antitrust and one each in white-collar and mergers and acquisitions, along with a half-dozen associates—will join Heather Nyong’o, who previously served as partner-in-charge of the San Francisco office and West Coast antitrust leader for Wilmer.

Heather Nyong’o, (Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM)