Baker & Hostetler announced on Friday that Adam Gale, a former practice leader at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, has joined the firm as a partner to help launch a new investment funds team.

A onetime senior counsel at The Bank of New York, Gale spent roughly the past six years at Mintz, serving as co-leader of that firm’s investment funds practice. His experience has focused on counseling middle-market investment funds on formation and structure, representing institutional investors in connection with their investments and guiding fund managers through regulatory compliance issues, according to Baker & Hostetler.